[Zope] Underscoring Inaugural Address

[J Cameron Cooper]

Dan Pozmanter wrote:
> Hello there Zopatistas,
>  
>    In my inaugural post, I should like to enquire about getting to a url 
> like so:
> http://myzopeserver.something.clever/a/path/to/a/file/named/__init__.py
>  
> Getting to the object "__init__.py" is difficult (it acts like it 
> doesn't exist.)
>  
> Is there a way to muck about with getattr, traversal, or something 
> related so
> that, for a particular kind of object (eg with a particular attribute), 
> Zope ignores
> the "cannot start with a '_' " rule?
>  
> I notice that the cvs.zope.org seems to transparently solve this problem,
> so presumably (if said interface is on a zope instance), this is solvable.

Probably, but it would be difficult. I don't even know enough about 
screwing with traversal to advise. By "file" what exactly do you mean?

I wonder if LocalFS deals with this problem? If it allows _filenames, 
perhaps you can stead something from there.

		--jcc

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