[Zope] how to open a file out of Zope and write into it?

[Geir Bækholt]

On  Wed, 18 Jun 2003 18:01:01 +0300 GMT (..17:01 where i live(GMT+2) )
leiz@esiee.fr asked the Zope mailinglist about the following:
  
> hello everyone!

> I want to open a file out of Zope and write something into it,and I
> have done one program Python, but the error message is: global name
> 'open' is not defined. I don't known why. would you please help me? 
> thank you!

> this is my program python

> request = container.REQUEST
> RESPONSE =  request.RESPONSE
> 
> 
> fd=open('c:/file.txt', 'w')
> fd.write('hello')
> 
> fd.close()

If you try doing this in a script(python) it will fail. The
through-the-web-scripts are restricted security-wise.

You need to use an external method to modify files on the filesystem

http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/2_6Edition/ScriptingZope=
.stx



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Geir Bækholt