[Zope] reading File Objects from Python Scripts and External Methods

[Peter Bengtsson]

On Monday 15 April 2002 01:24, Dennis Allison wrote:
> This relates to finding a workaround to my previous problem.  I can create
> File objects with content='text/xml' using essentially the same program I
> was trying to use to write ParsedXML.
>
> The next problem is how to read them, again from an External Method or
> Python script, as a string.  The plan is to convert the XML back into the
> simple markup to allow for editing.
>
> Of course, I discovered that the XML renders to nothing when evaluated
> using a <dtml-var .. >.  :-(
>

o = context.myfile
content = str(o)
print content
return printed


...or...

o = context.myfile
content = str(o)
return ParseSomeText(content) # i.e. do something to the file content