[Zope] Python -> ZopePython cheat sheet?

[Charlie Reiman]

Chris had some good suggestions. I would also suggest reading the source
whenever necessary. It can be hard to find things at first but most of the
code is pretty straight forward. It's also good to read the code of other
products and sites, of course. And never underestimate the value of:

<dtml-var REQUEST>

to tell you what's going on.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Skip
> Montanaro
> Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 3:17 PM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Python -> ZopePython cheat sheet?
>
>
>
> I am *so* used to just being able to explore around my Python interpreter
> and having everything I need documentation-wise in the global module index
> of the library reference manual that I am finding the whole Zope
> experience
> incredibly frustrating.  Is there no equivalent of dir() or type() which I
> can use from a Python script to find out what the heck I've been passed?
> Assuming there is some way to find out what I've gote, is there something
> like Python's global module index where I can just click on
> "Formulator" or
> "container" and get some documentation useful to a Python programmer?
>
> frustrated-in-evanston...
>
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> Skip Montanaro - skip@pobox.com
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