[Zope] python script ques

[Michal Bencur]

Hi Aseem,

maybe this helps:

if 'help' in context.objectIds():

but I think this is slow if there are many objects in a folder, so I use Catalog and something like this:

if context.myCatalog({'id': 'help'}):


Michal

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 12:03:33AM -0700, Aseem Mohanty wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> If I want to know whether or not an object bound to the 'context' 
> variable in Python Script has a specific child, how do I do it?
> 
> For e.g.
> 
> PScript:
> get_help(topic):
>     if context.[has_child]('help'):
>         if context.help.[has_child](topic):
>            path = context.help.absolute_url() + '/topic"
>     else:
>             path = None
>     return path
> 
> Is there a "has_child" function? I tried to do some stuff with traversal 
> but failed miserable (probably didnt understand it well enuff).
> TIA
> AM
> 
> 
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