[Zope] external methods and pyc files

[Dieter Maurer]

Richard Jolly wrote at 2004-2-4 12:20 +0000:
> ...
>Root
>   A
>     methx_search
>   B
>     methx_search
>
>The methx's contain sql statements pointing to different databases, and 
>the error messages I get are sql errors ( 'no column ...' ), which is 
>why its pretty clear which one is being called.
>
>I couldn't find any obvious reason why the wrong one was being called, 
>but I found I could disambiguate the external methods by renaming them 
>A_methx_search and B_methx_search in the ZMI, and saving the methods to 
>reload them. This worked, albeit proving I don't understand the root of 
>the problem, however...

You want to understand how acquisition works.
Especially, you want to focus on "Containment before Context".
Google to find relevant documents...

> ...
>Finally, when I have .py files only, no .pyc files are generated, which 
>I find slightly confusing.

External Methods do not use Python's normal import facility but
instead read in the methods. That's why no "*.pyc" files are
generated.

-- 
Dieter