[Zope] Questions on Acquistion

[Jim Fulton]

Evan Simpson wrote:
> 
> scott kaplan wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > I have an odd question about acquistion, it has to do with acquiring
> > anything that starts with an underscore.  Can anyone explain this to me.
> > (I understand w/ inheritance of names that start with one underscore the
> > name is changed to privitize the variable, but this seems different)
> 
> It is.  Acquisition doesn't work on names starting with an underscore;
> They're considered private.

However, you can acquire them with the aq_acquire method:

  x.aq_acquire('_spam')

You can't do this from DTML however.

Jim

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