[Zope] ZClass index_html question

[Maarten Slaets]

Peter Bengtsson wrote:
> 
> Smells like a bug.
> 
> I tried it too and it doesn't make sense.
> With a humble rename from "something" to "index_html" or "index_html" to
> "somethingelse" you go from 200 to 404 or 404 to 200.

thanks for trying it aswell.

> 
> Go to http://classic.zope.org:8080/Collector and search if the bug is
> already there (yes, the search is tricky but is being replaced to something
> even more complicated)
> If it isn't, report it.

I did that now, and I think you are right that its a bug
http://classic.zope.org:8080/Collector/476/view

It's been 'pending' since august '99 :(

> 
> What I don't understand is that all products (all meta types) are instances
> of classes and many of them have methods called index_html or define it as a
> link to a method using the __str__.

As far as I understand the Renderable class lets you bind a ZClass
method to __str__ , but it didn't solve this issue.

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Maarten Slaets
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