[Zope] Deleting an object from python (command line)

[Stefan H. Holek]

On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Gilles Lenfant wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I made a buggy access rule at the root of ZODB that makes the ZMI
> unreachable (error in Python script) I want to delete this accessrule so I
> stopped Zope and...
> 
> % cd $ZOPEROOT/lib/python
> % $ZOPEROOT/bin/python
> 
> >>> import Zope
> >>> app = Zope.app()
> >>> dir(app)
> [..., 'accessrule',...]
> >>> app.manage_delObjects(['accessrule'])
> >>> dir(app)
> [...] # no more "accessrule"
> >>> ^D
> 
> but 'accessrule' is STILL HERE !
> When I do again :
> 
> % $ZOPEROOT/bin/python
> 
> >>> import Zope
> >>> app = Zope.app()
> >>> dir(app)
> [..., 'accessrule',...] # Thought it was deleted !!!
> 
> Did I miss something ?
> Is there a "commit" like to do before quitting python?


Yep, it's called get_transaction().commit()

setting SUPPRESS_ACCESSRULE in the start script will disable the access
rules as well, BTW

Stefan