[Zope] Programmatically deleting objects

[Chris Withers]

Horak, Karl wrote:

> I appreciate the ZPT solution but the whole idea is to have a single method
> at the top of the tree and manage the objects down in the leaves from there.

So tweak the ZPT i gave you ;-)

> Meanwhile, have a little patience with us newbies--you can't memorize the
> manual in a day.  And the manual could certainly use some improvement, to
> wit, if dtml is frowned upon, put ZPT first and clearly mention that it is
> the preferred approach and should be learned first. 

If I could, I would. Sadly, the manual is a lore unto itself and is, I suspect, 
unmaintained now :-(

> down the hall finds some parts of Zope less than transparent.  You shouldn't
> have to read source code in the .py files to get things done.  

Indeed, but work on the basis that if it's feeling really painful and 
unintuitive, then there's a better way of doing it.

cheers,

Chris

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