[Zope] Acquisition not working as expected

[Andrew Milton]

+-------[ Roman Klesel ]----------------------
| Andrew Milton schrieb:
| > How about you forget about Acquisition for now.
| >
| 
| Well, hmmm ... this will be hard ... I was just about to fall in love with it ...

It's definitely useful, but, you have to pick your moments to use it.

| > Define the method in the class you want to call it on.
| 
| Then I will have to subclass from OFS.Image.File and I was told that this is somehow evil. From a previous thread:
| 
| Roman Klesel wrote:
| >> form OFS.Image import File
| >>
| >> - I build a class _File(File):
| 
| >I really doubt you need to do that...
| 
| >> - pimped it up a little bit.
| 
| >What, specifically, did you add?
| 
| >> - _setObject'ed it
| 
| >You shouldn't be calling that directly...

Well you have to decide who to believe then won't you ? d8)

| I was really hoping to get to understand this acquisition thing.
| Am I really that far away from getting it? What does it take to grasp it?

Think of Acquisition this way; read-only, run-time, inheritance.

-- 
Andrew Milton
akm at theinternet.com.au