[Zope] Index_html versus index.html

[Dieter Maurer]

Chris Withers writes:
 > Dieter Maurer wrote:
 > > 
 > > Pieter Biemond writes:
 > > 
 > >  > * Why is the default file index_html and not index.html
 > >  >   (Windows doesn't want to open files without extensions).
 > > I assume, because preferences of Python, Zope's implementation
 > > language, have had a higher priority than Windows preferences ;-)
 > > Python does not like periods in names.
 > 
 > That's not really true, python doesn't seem to care a lot about what's
 > in a name.
A name is a well defined lexical entity in Python:
   a sequence of letters, '_' and digits, starting with
   a letter or '_'.

 > If you have periods, it just means you need things like:
 > 
 > getattr(getattr(getattr(globals(),'x.y'), 'z.a'), 'index.html')
What you want to say:

   attributes can be referenced with more general entities
   than names, e.g. arbitrary strings.


But:
Try to define a method(!) "index.html" in a class.

I know, it is possible. But it is not natural.


Dieter