[Zope] External Method Working Directory?

Chris Withers chris at simplistix.co.uk
Fri Sep 30 09:33:58 EDT 2005


jwithers wrote:
> Because I need to feed the file to Mailman for evil purposes of my own
> (well, fairly mundane purposes of allowing my zope app to manipulate
> mailman list memberships, really) that the prototype mailman adapter I
> found doesn't meet. 

When I've needed to do simple stuff with this is the past, I just 
manipulate mailmain by send email from Zope to mailman's admin interface...

> And yeah, tempfile would work, although, I have to
> admit I really don't see the point of it when you are only storing one
> file. I am probably missing some usecase or good programming practice
> here, but it seems like it saves you a single line for the delete in
> return for an extra module import. 

What happens when two users do something that creates one of these temp 
files at exactly the same time? ;-)

cheers,

Chris

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