[Zope-dev] Re: How to delete an object given a path in Zope

[Tres Seaver]

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Takahashi, Michael wrote:
> Hi Suresh,
> 
> I've actually tried that.  The problem I run into is that the folder in
> my path contains a dash. When I call manage_delObjects on the following:
> 
> 
> obj = context.restrictedTraverse('webcasts/courses/2005-2006/temp')
> id = obj.getId()
> context.webcasts.courses.2005-2006.manage_delObjects(id)
> 
> Python complains about the '-' in 2005-2006 on the third line. So my
> thought was that if you had the object reference you could somehow
> delete that reference like so:
> 
> 
> obj = context.restrictedTraverse('webcasts/courses/2005-2006/temp')
> id = obj.getId()
> obj.manage_delObjects(id)
> 
> 
> This however does not work. It gives the following error:
> 
> Error Type
>     AttributeError
> Error Value
>     temp

You need to get a reference to the container, and call
'manage_delObject' on it, e.g.:

  container = context.restrictedTraverse('webcasts/courses/2005-2006')
  container.manage_delObject('temp')


Tres.
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