[Zope] LocalFS question

Jonothan Farr jfarr@real.com
Tue, 12 Dec 2000 15:54:25 -0800


> At least the "Local File System" object does not expose
> its children via "getattr" (which is required for the
> usual "." operator to work) but only via "[...]".
>
> This probably is a bug.


No this is by design, as explained in the how-to. Most operating systems allow
period (.) characters in filenames, so how would the dtml expression
"LocalFS.some.dir.some.file.plus.extension" be translated to a file system path?

--jfarr