[Zope-dev] (no subject)

[ralf.herold@charite.de]

Hello Dieter, dear list readers,

I recently asked how to read in and render the contents of 
an external file, which doesn't work anymore using 
Zope 2.2.2 an LocalFS' xxx.read(), and You responded that

> The quickest solution for you would be an external method
> that gets the file, performs the "read" and returns the result.

Now I use in an external method fsreadin a .py-module with

import sys
def readinfile (self, html):
    """Ralf Herolds way to read in local file objects."""
    file = open(html, "r")
    filecontent = file.read()
    file.close()
    return filecontent

which is referenced in a DTML method by 
<dtml-var "fsreadin('/tmp/var/thewantedtext.html')">.

It works, but I almost cannot believe that this is that 
simple - am I missing something, is security a concern?

Thanks for answering, Yours. Ralf Herold
mailto:ralf.herold@charite.de  http://www.knm-poh.charite.de/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dieter Maurer [mailto:dieter@handshake.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 1:46 PM
> To: ralf.herold@charite.de
> Cc: Zope-Dev@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] (no subject)

> In earlier Zope versions, a method without a permission meant
> "can be used freely". Now, it means "cannot be used via DTML/URL".
>