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
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