Re: [Zope] A quick zope/python question

2006-05-09 Thread Jonathan
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 11:25 AM Subject: Re: [Zope] A quick zope/python question -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9 May 2006, at 16:18, Jonathan wrote: gc= GarbageCollector exists I think I am misunderstanding something basic about python/zope here. Why does a TOC obj

Re: [Zope] A quick zope/python question

2006-05-09 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 9. Mai 2006 11:18:25 -0400 Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a short python script: gc = context.restrictedTraverse('coup/temp_folder/GarbageCollector', None) print 'gc=',str(gc) if gc: print 'GarbageCollector exists' else: print 'No GarbageCollector' which, when run produc

Re: [Zope] A quick zope/python question

2006-05-09 Thread Jens Vagelpohl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9 May 2006, at 16:18, Jonathan wrote: gc= GarbageCollector exists I think I am misunderstanding something basic about python/zope here. Why does a TOC object evaluate to false? I think the basic misunderstanding is about what happens if yo

Re: [Zope] A quick zope/python question

2006-05-09 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 5/9/06, Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think I am misunderstanding something basic about python/zope here. Why does a TOC object evaluate to false? Well, why not? If you are checking for none-ness, use "is None". Evaluating the object is wrong. If the TOC object evaluates to somethin

[Zope] A quick zope/python question

2006-05-09 Thread Jonathan
I have a short python script: gc = context.restrictedTraverse('coup/temp_folder/GarbageCollector', None) print 'gc=',str(gc) if gc: print 'GarbageCollector exists' else: print 'No GarbageCollector' which, when run produces: gc= No GarbageCollector Which is really strange because 'gc' was ju

Re: [Zope] python question

2005-07-01 Thread Fred Drake
On 7/1/05, Jürgen Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i think there should be no functional difference in the two code snippets > below, but is there any difference in performance? Don't know, and don't care; these are (at the Python level) functionally different. > (i know, the "except Attribu

Re: [Zope] python question

2005-07-01 Thread Andreas Jung
--On 1. Juli 2005 17:10:58 +0200 Jürgen Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi all! i think there should be no functional difference in the two code snippets below, but is there any difference in performance? You could benchmark it :-) -aj pgphfg7D56dFp.pgp Description: PGP signature __

[Zope] python question

2005-07-01 Thread Jürgen Herrmann
hi all! i think there should be no functional difference in the two code snippets below, but is there any difference in performance? (i know, the "except AttributeError" could possibly mask an AttributeError in the called function...) 1.: hook = getattr(o, '_before_transaction_commit', None) if h

RE: [Zope] python question

2005-05-31 Thread Jim Abramson
blast! i'll keep my mouth shut til I get the library memorized. Jim > -Original Message- > From: Tino Wildenhain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 4:06 PM > To: Jim Abramson > Cc: Kate Legere; Zope > Subject: RE: [Zope] python questio

RE: [Zope] python question

2005-05-31 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Am Dienstag, den 31.05.2005, 15:38 -0400 schrieb Jim Abramson: > sort() on a sequence does not return anything. It operates on the > [mutable] sequence in place. sequence is a module in Zope. So she indeed was right. ___ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org

Re: [Zope] python question

2005-05-31 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Am Dienstag, den 31.05.2005, 15:34 -0400 schrieb Kate Legere: > I may be asking this in the wrong place but I have a tal page where I want > to use python to display only the most recent addition to a folder of files. > > > I can sort the folder and return all the files easily with: > return seq

RE: [Zope] python question

2005-05-31 Thread Kate Legere
Thanks - turns out the real error was in the file dealing with it - all fixed now. Thanks for the help. Kate -Original Message- From: Jim Abramson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 2:38 PM To: Kate Legere; Zope Subject: RE: [Zope] python question sort() on a

Re: [Zope] python question

2005-05-31 Thread J Cameron Cooper
Kate Legere wrote: I may be asking this in the wrong place but I have a tal page where I want to use python to display only the most recent addition to a folder of files. I can sort the folder and return all the files easily with: return sequence.sort(files, (('bobobase_modification_time', 'cm

RE: [Zope] python question

2005-05-31 Thread Jim Abramson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Kate Legere > Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 3:35 PM > To: Zope > Subject: [Zope] python question > > I may be asking this in the wrong place but I have a tal page > where I want to use python to display only the most recent

[Zope] python question

2005-05-31 Thread Kate Legere
I may be asking this in the wrong place but I have a tal page where I want to use python to display only the most recent addition to a folder of files. I can sort the folder and return all the files easily with: return sequence.sort(files, (('bobobase_modification_time', 'cmp', 'desc'),)) How d