[Zope] My Way of Zope Programming

[Chris McDonough]

> > What do you think about it?
>
> I'm a relative newcomer to Zope myself, so I don't have much
hard-won
> experience to base any comments upon.  I would like to say that
what Zope
> seems to be missing is the interactive nature of Python.  When
learning ZPT
> recently, I had a devil of a time trying to debug it.  I would
like to know
> the equivalent of the Python "fire up the interactive interpreter
prompt and
> start playing around" drill for Zope.

cd yourzope/lib/python
python
>>> import Zope
>>> app = Zope.app()
>>> app.objectIds()
['standard_html_header', 'Examples', ...]


> Also, what about testing?  How do you layer and modularize things
properly
> so that you can follow the test driven coding approach of XP with
Zope?

See any "tests" package inside of most directories in Zope.  Also
read UNITTEST.txt in the doc directory.