[Zope] - Looping over the characters in a string in DTML...

[Wolf Logan]

i've been thinking about this for a while now, and i was wondering if anyone
had considered building a product to support python methods that would be
stored in the object database. something like a document, but with real
python source. the product could execute the code in a bastion (for security
purposes).

this would be a somewhat simpler way to handle external methods than using
the external methods product, since the method itself would be stored in the
object database and be editable through-the-web.

i've wanted this so i could write one- or two-line snippets that could be
used in "real" documents.


-----Original Message-----
From: Ty Sarna
Sent: 1/16/99 9:36 AM

On a more practical note, producing a picklist of years given a
start and end date seems like a fairly common thing to want do.  Why
should I have have to give a content author on my zope site access to
the filesystem, just to write a one-line function wrapper around a
builtin python function?