[Zope3-Users] Two content objects' simultaneous adding

[Tom Dossis]

Ron Bickers wrote:
> On Sat May 20 2006 17:09, Ron Bickers wrote:
> 
>>> I have two content objects (both are containers) but I cannot add one
>>> to another as give here :
>>>
>>>     def create(self, data):
>>>         square = Square()
>>>         square.name = data['name']
>>>         square.description = data['description']
>>>         company = Company()
>>>         company.name = data['companyname']
>>>         company.description = data['companydescription']
>>>         square['Comp1'] = company
>>>         ...
>>>         return square
> 
>> I did this very thing a couple days ago in 3.3 and it works for me, except
>> that I'm using zope.app.zapi.createObject to create the instances of my
>> content objects.
> 
> Ok.  So now I'm wondering... what's the point in using createObject if I can 
> just create an object the Python way?

I guess createObject could be useful in an example such as a generic
add-objects menu.  In this scenario it's probably be easier to deal with
factory names.
Otherwise I can't see why you shouldn't do it the python way if it's
more direct/explicit.