Dieter Maurer wrote:
_setObject has an _ because it is a private method
which should not be called by TTW code.
Ok ... but that is not really what is meant by a private method.
Usually a private method is used purely as a mean of implementation. And
should never be called from other objects.
Hi!
I already asked this question on the main Zope list, but there was no answer so far; so I hope I find the right audience here...
In my HowTo about dealing with BLOBs
http://www.zope.org/Members/murphy/MySQL-BLOBs I use a rather
unelegant but working method to get the content type of an
From: maxm [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Usually a private method is used purely as a mean of implementation. And
should never be called from other objects. This is not the case here, as
the method is clearly a part of the api.
Well, no, it isn't really, since it starts with _. However, python do not in
Lennart Regebro wrote:
From: maxm [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Usually a private method is used purely as a mean of implementation. And
should never be called from other objects. This is not the case here, as
the method is clearly a part of the api.
Well, no, it isn't really, since it starts with _.
From: Max M [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry but I don't see that. How on earth are you suposed to add an
object to an objectmanager, if you don't use _setObject() ??
You use another method that in turn calls _setObject.
Now you may argue that there should be a public method that does the same,
but
maxm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a few tutorials / How_to's on zope.org. And sometimes I get some
interresting mails because of that.
Somebody asked me today why _setObject() has that name, as it is used in
many products, and thus ought to be an interface method. And called
Martin Gebert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my HowTo about dealing with BLOBs
http://www.zope.org/Members/murphy/MySQL-BLOBs I use a rather
unelegant but working method to get the content type of an uploaded
file. Stefan Tjarks has now drawn my attention to the Header attributes
of the
Lennart Regebro wrote at 2003-2-1 15:48 +0100:
From: Max M [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry but I don't see that. How on earth are you suposed to add an
object to an objectmanager, if you don't use _setObject() ??
You use another method that in turn calls _setObject.
Now you may argue
