[Zope] Need to call external programs in a DTML

[Tony McDonald]

At 9:15 am +0000 12/8/99, Constantin Teodorescu wrote:
>Need to call some external programs written in Tcl or Java that will
>update some database tables in order to deliver some information
>retrievable by ordinary Z SQL methods.
>

disclaimer: I'm just readng this from the O'Reilly Python Bok, page 117

The python stuff is probably os.system() and os.popen(), eg
os.system("your_prog.java")
and
the_output = os.popen("your_prog.java", "r").read()

how you pass arguments is beyond me...
hth
tone out.
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