On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Reinout van Rees <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/23/09 8:38 PM, Jeff Kunce wrote: >> >> I am using the buildout page on pypi as a reference >> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout >> >> What is the python shell used for the examples? I can follow what is >> going on, but I'm not familiar with some of the functions used. For >> example: >> >>> write(sample_buildout, 'recipes', 'mkdir.py', ...) >> >> Sorry if this is a silly question, but I'm stumped. Thanks. > > Those write() and cat() and ls() methods are helper methods that are > provided by zc.buildout's own test setup. > > > (Technically: they're injected into the test's globals namespace, look for a > ``test.globs['write'] = some_write_method`` in test*.py if you want the > details) > > Really handy when testing zc.buildout. But they might just be a "little bit > hidden" away in the test setup code ;-)
If it's not the case already, a small section on these APIs at buildout.org, and a link to it in zc.buildout doc could help understand it imho Regards Tarek _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
