[Zope] "Missing doc strings" - huh?

[Martijn Pieters]

At 13:39 09/09/99 , Chris Allen wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I keep on running into this error:
>
>   Debugging Notice
>
>   Zope has encountered a problem publishing your object.
>   Missing doc string at: http://zopesite/blah...
>
>Traceback (innermost last):
>   File /Zope-2.0.0/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 214, in
>publish_module
>   File /Zope-2.0.0/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 179, in publish
>   File /Zope-2.0.0/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 201, in
>zpublisher_exception_hook
>     (Object: ApplicationDefaultPermissions)
>   File /Zope-2.0.0/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 151, in publish
>   File /Zope-2.0.0/lib/python/ZPublisher/BaseRequest.py, line 344, in
>traverse
>   File /Zope-2.0.0/lib/python/ZPublisher/HTTPResponse.py, line 520, in
>debugError
>NotFound: (see above)
>
>
>What exactly is a "missing doc string"??  Anyone seen this before?
>
>The error arose when I tried to submit a form which has been produced by a
>call to HTMLFile from an external Python method.  The form has worked
>before.

A "doc string" is the python documentation string you can add to all your 
objects by placing a string in it's definition, stroed in it's __doc__ 
property. See your Python manuals for details.

Zope will not publish an object unless it has one.

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