[Zope] pythonmethods rock ! this should be part of zope.

[chas]

I've just installed pythonmethods and have to take my hat 
off to Evan Simpson and anyone else involved in the develop-
-ment of pythonmethods !  The past 2 weeks, since looking at
Zope again, I've been saddened to find that I've stopped 
thinking about the "problem space" and more about just trying
to grok code and make simple stuff work ... the lack of
accurate/complete documentation aside, I think the main 
reason for this is that DTML just looks so damned unreadable 
compared to python. (I've seen some posts on this list that gave 
me Perl flashbacks - which wasn't a pretty sight <g>). 
My productivity has really dropped the past fortnight as a result.
So, I'm hoping Python methods can get me back to writing Python !
In fact, this sort of functionality was what I expected and hoped
for when I first looked at zope (external methods don't quite cut
it because they live on the filesystem and can get 'lost' or
separated).. totally essential, especially with the recently posted
code to import any python classes. wicked. coding is fun again.

On this note though, writing python means that 'tabs' are now
important and so using a web-browser to write code is not possible...
since the tab sends the focus to the next field. 
So, I'm using FTP (with Ultraedit on win32) which works great with
dtml methods and dtml documents stored in folders but I can't open
the following :
a) pythonmethods, no matter where they are stored. why is this so ?
b) zclass methods. the zclass is shown in the product listing
   but it's not possible to drill down to the methods.  

So, right now, I've got a tab in my clipboard and am CTRL+V'ing 
it when editing pythonmethods via the web browser. This is a bit 
low tech to say the least ;) Somebody want to put me out of my 
agony please ?

cheers,

chas