[Zope] External Methods

[Peter Bengtsson]

2005/10/13, DS <ds at sidorof.com>:
> Hi, I am just learning Zope, and I wanted to try external methods.  I
> first tried a symlink in the Extension directory, but zope reported it
> couldn't find it.  I then copied the file into the Extension directory
> and was successful at that.  I assume that happened that way perhaps for
> my own protection.  Is that true?  Or, is there a better way to do
> that?  I have a project directory where I have been working on modules,
> and I was hoping to avoid copying them periodically to Extensions as I
> test one thing or another.

Symbolic link or hard copy, to Zope it shouldn't matter. Python
doesn't really make a difference between not finding a file and
finding it but can't open it due to security permissions.
Check permissions on it.

>
> My next question is that I import other modules within the module that I
> just mentioned.  I have copied them over to Extension, but still have an
> error that they are not found.  Am I trying to do something prohibited
> with Zope.  What controls that?
>
<zopedir>/Extensions is NOT part of the PYTHONPATH
Don't stick your additional module in Extensions, put them somewhere
else like /home/ds/foobar
then in your one python file in Extensions you can do:

import sys
sys.path.append(r'/home/ds/foobar')
from foobar import Whatever

> Thanks very much for any help you can give me.
>
> ds
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