[Zope] Python -> ZopePython cheat sheet?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Chris> You may want to try out Dieter Maurer's DocFinder product
    Chris> (http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope/DocFinder.html).

Thanks, I'll give it a look.

    Chris> Otherwise the help system and the Zope Book appendices are what
    Chris> you've got.  Note that there is a fairly extensive API reference
    Chris> in the help system.

This part is frustrating.  Stuff seems to be scattered all over the place.
Part of my frustration is that when I find something that looks promising I
generally have to figure out what the page template equivalent of a dtml
example is.  I really don't want to wade into dtml again.  I used it for a
few years outside of Zope and didn't like it.

    Chris> Were you successful at accessing your Zope objects in a Python
    Chris> prompt?

Yes, thanks.  I can get to the static stuff without too much trouble using
the medusa/monitor_client script.  It's a tad frustrating to not have
readline, but I guess that's the price I have to pay for using a canned
install on a not-quite-yet wrung out platform (MacOSX).  Perhaps I can coax
IPython or pyrepl into working for me.  I haven't yet tried submitting a
form with several fields.  I anticipate that will be tedious.

Is there some way I can make dir() and type() available to scripts for
development purposes and make sys importable once again?

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