[Zope] Naming files with a dot

[Kevin Dangoor]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jay R. Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: zope@zope.org <zope@zope.org>
Date: Saturday, October 02, 1999 12:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] Naming files with a dot


>On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 10:30:11AM +1000, Stuart 'Zen' Bishop wrote:
>> If you need to catch these cases, you just have to create a DTML method
>> called 'index.html' at the root of your Zope tree, with the following
contents:
>>     <dtml-var index_html>
>
>Can you _do_ that without the . confusing Zope?

Yep. You have to be wary of it if you use it in an expression (which could
confuse Python), or as Michel pointed out, if you use XML-RPC.

Otherwise, putting a "." in an object id does not appear to be a problem.

Kevin