debuggin in zope (was Re: [Zope] XML in Zope)

[Tim Hicks]

Dan,

<snip>

> It will undoubtedly take me some time to come up to speed on all this
> syntactical stuff, but I'm sure I can grok it. The biggest problem I have
> trying to code Python scripts in Zope is the virtual absence of debugging
> tools in the environment.

don't know if this is quite what you meant, but I had some trouble a while
back trying to debug python scripts in zope.  The problem I found was not
being able to get hold of tracebacks at certain points.  I made minimal
product with just the following in the __init__.py

----
from Products.PythonScripts.Utility import allow_module, allow_class
from AccessControl import ModuleSecurityInfo, ClassSecurityInfo
from Globals import InitializeClass

ModuleSecurityInfo('sys').declarePublic('exc_info')
ModuleSecurityInfo('traceback').declarePublic('extract_tb')
----

Now, I can import the relevant stuff into python scripts and get hold of
tracebacks.  I've got things setup in the various scripts so the import only
occurs if I've got debugging turned on.  Something like

----
if debug == 1:
  from sys import exc_info
  import traceback
----

Just thought that might help.

tim