[Zope] Need Help--urgently

[David H]

Martijn Pieters wrote:

>cpdm cadlab wrote:
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>>  thanks for the quick reply. I am glad to be here on active ZOPE
>>mailing list.
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>Let's keep it on the list then; no personal email please.
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>>  I had initially done the way you have suggested, but it doesn't work
>>in the sense I get a empty list as output, which I know isn't empty.
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>Then something is wrong with the external method. Use a debugger (pdb,
>Wing, Komodo, etc.) or spurious logging (import logger;
>logger.getLogger('yourmodule').log) to trace your code.
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>>This made me think that I was making silly mistake. If I run external
>>method in python shell it shows the mlist, which is non-empty, but if I
>>ask the same to python script to do what it prints is this : []
>>  What do you think is wrong. A further code goes like this:
>>mlist = context.code(uparam)
>>if len(mlist) == str(0):
>>    print "Sorry no suitable method found in database"
>>    return printed
>>else:
>>    print mlist
>>    return printed
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>Use "if not len(mlist):"; comparing the length to str(0) is always
>false. "len" returns an integer, not a string, so 0 == '0' will never be
>True.
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>You can also call the external method directly if you encode the
>arguments passed to it in the query string. Just open up a python
>propmt, import urllib and call urllib.quote on your argument list to
>hand-construct a URL.
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>Moreover, get decent books on Python and on Web programming in general.
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>Martijn Pieters
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Martijn,

I wonder which books would recommend?  Best I can say is that books just 
about HTTP are probably the least appreciated and often the most useful.

David








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