[Zope] Access Object 'by name' from python

[Casey Duncan]

Horst Wald wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> is there a way to access Objects 'by name'? I mean to pass the name or the
> path of an object to a python script and then call it? Like the
> _[...] trick?
> 
> By the way: via objectItems(), I can get a list like
> 
> ['DB', 'DBAdapter', 'DBInterface', 'index_html', 'rename', 'kadabra',
> 'abra', 'LogBuch', 'LogNeu', 'delete', 'exists', 'ko', 'asas', 'copy_of_ko',
> 'listRec', 'listAll']
> 
> of all the objects in a given folder. Is there a way to do that recursively?
> 
> One last question: is there a way to see the type of a given object from
> python? Or to see if it has certain attributes?
> 
> Thank you Gurus
> 
> Horst

getattr(context, 'name')

Should do the trick.

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