[Zope] About publishing image files in python product

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why don't you just make your class a container
so you can add images with
self._setObject


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dirksen" <dirksen_lau@yahoo.com>
To: "zope" <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 10:15 AM
Subject: [Zope] About publishing image files in python product


> I'm writing a python product, which will publish a lot of image files as
class
> attributes. 2 problems arose:
>
> 1. All image files have to be manually declared as class attributes in the
python class
> file, which is a tedius job.
>
> 2. The declaration mentioned above doesn't allow dot in the attribute name
(it may be my
> ignorance), so 'toolbar.gif' has to be renamed to 'toolbar_gif'.
>
> I sort of found a work-around by overriding __getitem__, like this:
> def __getitem__(self, name):
>     return ImageFile('img/%s' % name, globals())
>
> It solves the problem. But after the excitement subsided, I started to
wonder why DC
> doesn't do that in the first place. Can anyone tell whether there's a huge
performance
> trade-off? Is there a better way to solve the two problems?
>
> Cheers
> Dirksen
>
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