Re: [Zope] Why the same directories:instance and skel

2007-01-09 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 10. Januar 2007 10:45:59 +0800 Steve Han <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I found thar subdirectory instance has completly the same as subdirectory skel in zope's home directory.What consideration for that from point of view of software designing?Thanks a lot. I've never seen something call

[Zope] Why the same directories:instance and skel

2007-01-09 Thread Steve Han
I found thar subdirectory instance has completly the same as subdirectory skel in zope's home directory.What consideration for that from point of view of software designing?Thanks a lot. -- Steve Han ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope

[Zope] Re: External Method and XML-PRC (Maybe a bug)

2007-01-09 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Phani Kumar Arava wrote: > Hi, > Iam trying to use Zope as an App server (basically to provide an XML-RPC > interface) for a certain application . > > I have a function called addFile in the External Method. > > def ext_addfile(self): > ob=se

[Zope] External Method and XML-PRC (Maybe a bug)

2007-01-09 Thread Phani Kumar Arava
Hi, Iam trying to use Zope as an App server (basically to provide an XML-RPC interface) for a certain application . I have a function called addFile in the External Method. def ext_addfile(self): ob=self.Files ob.manage_addFile("hello","hello") I created an external method call ex

Re: [Zope] all_meta_types confusion

2007-01-09 Thread Gabriel Genellina
At Tuesday 9/1/2007 12:57, Garth B. wrote: def all_meta_types(self): return ( { 'name' : 'Web Page', 'action': 'manage_addProduct/DWT/WebPage_add', 'permission': 'Add Web Page', }, ) Make sure you use *exactly* the same string to defi

Re: [Zope] Isn't DTML more like what other frameworks do?

2007-01-09 Thread Paul Winkler
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 08:31:29PM +0100, Maciej Wisniowski wrote: > > As for me, I am lazy. ZPT does things in a way that few other frameworks do, > > although Ruby's Amrita2 sort of resembles ZPT. Not really. It's more closely related to the Meld family (pymeld, pymeldlite, meld3), and to XMLC.

[Zope] TypeError when copy FS python script to custom folder

2007-01-09 Thread Edmund Moseley
I am in the process of trying to add RAMCaches to my python scripts, and wanted to test it out TTW via custom. However, whenever I make a copy of my FS python script to custom, and then view the object which uses this script, I get the following error: TypeError: arg is not a code object This

Re: [Zope] Recovering from Data.fs

2007-01-09 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Maciej Wisniowski schrieb: >From my understanding the paths for the zope instance have to be the same for Data.fs to work correctly. Is that correct? No, Data.fs should be portable. Yup, need to crete plain new Zope instance and put your data.fs into var directory. After this start Zope and ta

Re: [Zope] Isn't DTML more like what other frameworks do?

2007-01-09 Thread Maciej Wisniowski
> As for me, I am lazy. ZPT does things in a way that few other frameworks do, > although Ruby's Amrita2 sort of resembles ZPT. > Displaying phantom text in a static page which will > not be there dynamically is not superior to DTML. > It is just more confusing. I have never learned ZPT > well an

Re: [Zope] Recovering from Data.fs

2007-01-09 Thread Maciej Wisniowski
>> >From my understanding the paths for the zope instance have to be the >> same for Data.fs to work correctly. Is that correct? > > No, Data.fs should be portable. > Yup, need to crete plain new Zope instance and put your data.fs into var directory. After this start Zope and take a look into Con

RE: [Zope] Isn't DTML more like what other frameworks do?

2007-01-09 Thread Mark, Jonathan (Integic)
I was reading a public blog post among the Zope honchos. And they were agreeing that ZPT was a mistake. Some said that Zope ought to have used something like CSilver. Jim Fulton had complained that he had just spent an entire morning setting up tests for a ZPT page, and that he, Fulton, was sup

Re: [Zope] need advice on mass data processing

2007-01-09 Thread Dieter Maurer
Allen Huang wrote at 2007-1-9 01:05 -0800: > ... >I've never thought of using a BTree because I don't know enough about it. I'll >look into it but will BTree still be a better choice than making instance if >I'm going to make interactive functions? BTrees provide an efficient means to store mapp

Re: [Zope] How to setup and show zope server's homepage to clients?

2007-01-09 Thread Dieter Maurer
Steve Han wrote at 2007-1-9 14:32 +0800: >Forgive me for unpatience.I installed zope as server to serve business's >content as homepage.How can I do that using ZMI?First make a folder and >then.. You read the Zope Book (2.7 edition, online on "plope.org") and then come back with specific quest

Re: [Zope] need advice on mass data processing

2007-01-09 Thread Dieter Maurer
Allen Huang wrote at 2007-1-8 19:28 -0800: >currently I have written my program so it will do an entry by entry processing >with zope. This operation is like this > >1. read data (the data file) >2. create product (a python product that store three field data: one string >and two float data) >3.

Re: [Zope] Isn't DTML more like what other frameworks do?

2007-01-09 Thread Dieter Maurer
Andreas Jung wrote at 2007-1-8 19:08 +0100: > ... >The question is: what is easier to learn and to understand - DTML or ZPT? >Can you explain the "nonsense" of the _ namespace in DTML to a newbie? Sure. There is only one caveat: that two positional arguments need to be passed for recursive calls

Re: [Zope] Recovering from Data.fs

2007-01-09 Thread Paul Winkler
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:49:11PM +, Rowan Woodhouse wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to recover a zope instance from a hardware failure. The > only thing I have left is the backed up Data.fs file. I'm not entirely > sure which version of Zope was used but I think it was 2.9 (certainly > not 3), o

Re: [Zope] all_meta_types confusion

2007-01-09 Thread Dieter Maurer
Garth B. wrote at 2007-1-9 10:57 -0500: >def all_meta_types(self): >return ( >{ >'name' : 'Web Page', >'action': 'manage_addProduct/DWT/WebPage_add', >'permission': 'Add Web Page', >}, >) > >I haven't followed Maciej's suggestion yet to us

[Zope] Recovering from Data.fs

2007-01-09 Thread Rowan Woodhouse
Hi, I'm trying to recover a zope instance from a hardware failure. The only thing I have left is the backed up Data.fs file. I'm not entirely sure which version of Zope was used but I think it was 2.9 (certainly not 3), or what the install paths were for the instance or zope. When I try and use

[Zope] Re: Values lost when restarting

2007-01-09 Thread Tres Seaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonas Nielsen wrote: > Hi this is probably a little vague but any help is appreciated. > > I'm developing on an old zope application, which I ported from zope > 2.5.1 to zope 2.9. The application seems like it's based on the > addressbook applicatio

Re: [Zope] Values lost when restarting

2007-01-09 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 9. Januar 2007 17:06:24 +0100 Jonas Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The "Zope Bible" says something about calling self.__changed__(1) after updating the value but this doesn't seem to work even though the objects inherits from "Persistent" self._p_changed = 1 -aj pgpc0BPV4vYce.p

[Zope] Values lost when restarting

2007-01-09 Thread Jonas Nielsen
Hi this is probably a little vague but any help is appreciated. I'm developing on an old zope application, which I ported from zope 2.5.1 to zope 2.9. The application seems like it's based on the addressbook application in the "Zope Bible" The application is a tool for localization, where tra

Re: [Zope] all_meta_types confusion

2007-01-09 Thread Garth B.
Hello Dieter, This is my all_meta_types function: def all_meta_types(self): return ( { 'name' : 'Web Page', 'action': 'manage_addProduct/DWT/WebPage_add', 'permission': 'Add Web Page', }, ) I haven't followed Maciej's suggestion yet to use pd

Re: [Zope] need advice on mass data processing

2007-01-09 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 9. Januar 2007 05:39:29 -0800 Allen Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There is other solution that uses RDBMS to what I'm trying to do, and I'm considering using PostGreSQL after. But before that, I want to using ZOPE and ZODB because I feel this could work. But in ZOPE vs RDBMS, why do yo

Re: [Zope] need advice on mass data processing

2007-01-09 Thread Allen Huang
There is other solution that uses RDBMS to what I'm trying to do, and I'm considering using PostGreSQL after. But before that, I want to using ZOPE and ZODB because I feel this could work. But in ZOPE vs RDBMS, why do you consider RDBMS first, why not ZOPE? can your give me the pros and cons

Re: [Zope] need advice on mass data processing

2007-01-09 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 9. Januar 2007 08:21:18 -0500 Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message - From: "Andrew Milton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andreas Jung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Zope" Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 4:21 AM Subject: Re: [Zope] need advice on mass data processing +

Re: [Zope] need advice on mass data processing

2007-01-09 Thread Jonathan
- Original Message - From: "Andrew Milton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andreas Jung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Zope" Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 4:21 AM Subject: Re: [Zope] need advice on mass data processing +---[ Andreas Jung ]-- | | Sorry, but you are misu

Re: [Zope] Isn't DTML more like what other frameworks do?

2007-01-09 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 9. Januar 2007 07:47:28 + Chris Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andreas Jung wrote: The question is: what is easier to learn and to understand - DTML or ZPT? The correct answer is, of course, Twiddler ;-) http://www.simplistix.co.uk/software/python/twiddler Yes, you dese

Re: [Zope] Isn't DTML more like what other frameworks do?

2007-01-09 Thread Chris Withers
Andreas Jung wrote: The question is: what is easier to learn and to understand - DTML or ZPT? The correct answer is, of course, Twiddler ;-) http://www.simplistix.co.uk/software/python/twiddler Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simpli

Re: [Zope] need advice on mass data processing

2007-01-09 Thread John Schinnerer
Aloha, Sounds like your data case/data model is better suited to a SQL database (Relational DB instead of Object DB). Zope works with MySQL, PostgreSQL etc. via ZSQLMethods. Look into using those, with your existing data going into a SQL DB (or maybe it is already?), if you want/need to acces

Re: [Zope] need advice on mass data processing

2007-01-09 Thread Andrew Milton
+---[ Andreas Jung ]-- | | Sorry, but you are misusing Zope. Put your data into a RDBMS and be the | happiest man in the world. The ZODB is not a data toilet. Nothing more | to add from my side on this particular issue. I concur. -- Andrew Milton [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: [Zope] need advice on mass data processing

2007-01-09 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 9. Januar 2007 01:05:54 -0800 Allen Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry Andreas.. My product is rewritten in python placed in the product folder. So yes, it is a instance of a class. In the future, I will be storing more data into one instance from other dbase file (The total columns

Re: [Zope] need advice on mass data processing

2007-01-09 Thread Allen Huang
Sorry Andreas.. My product is rewritten in python placed in the product folder. So yes, it is a instance of a class. In the future, I will be storing more data into one instance from other dbase file (The total columns may vary). I'm still in the developing stage and this is just a test run t