[Zope] Debugging and Environment Variables

[Derek Basch]

> I may be missing something
> critical, but I find the
> development cycle is much faster when debugging on a
> live instance...

I also prefer to debug on a live instance. However, I
am attempting to debug someone else's product:

http://www.zope.org/Members/mwoj/kinterbasdbDA

I need to know the value of a variable that is
generated during the usage of kinterbasdbDA and have
not had much luck returning the variable value in a
live session.

> Fire up Zope and connect with a local web browser?

Works fine.

I think that the debugger really could be my friend if
I could just get ZPublisher.Zope() to return
something. Perhaps I should submit another request to
the list titled:

"Does Zope Debugging Even Work??"

If you know of any Zopers who might be able to help me
(and the community) out I would greatly appreciate you
forwarding this to them. 

Thanks for everything Dylan,
Derek Basch


--- Dylan Reinhardt <zope@dylanreinhardt.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 08:31, Derek Basch wrote:
> > > Running Zope this way isn't an area of great
> > > expertise for me...
> > 
> > This seems to be no ones area of expertise. Did I
> pick
> > a weird way to debug or something?
> 
> Well... it doesn't appear to offer a lot of
> advantages over debugging
> with a web client.  I may be missing something
> critical, but I find the
> development cycle is much faster when debugging on a
> live instance...
> particularly when what I'm debugging creates layouts
> or other visual
> artifacts.
> 
> 
> > Here is the traceback from my root object request:
> > 
> > >>> ZPublisher.Zope('')
> > Status: 200 OK
> > X-Powered-By: Zope (www.zope.org), Python
> > (www.python.org)
> > Content-Length: 0
> > 
> > I have tried this on 2 separate Zope installs and
> both
> > fail to return the "Zope Quick Start" page. So, it
> > looks like there is a fundamental flaw in how my
> > requests are being processed. I can't believe that
> no
> > one has ever run into this problem before?
> > Suggestions?
> 
> 
> Fire up Zope and connect with a local web browser?  
> 
> Testing is all well and good, but if you're having
> difficulty
> troubleshooting your testing environment, it might
> be better to just
> take an easier route.  Interacting with the ZMI may
> also provide some
> insight... tough to say.
> 
> > 
> > > You might also find this howto helpful:
> >
>
>http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/HowTos/TheDebuggerIsYourFriend
> > 
> > Thanks for the suggestion but that is the page
> that
> > got me started down this highway of confusion!
> 
> Oh... well, maybe the debugger isn't *your* friend
> after all... :-)
> 
> Dylan
> 


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