[Zope] external method / passing variables....

[Oliver Bleutgen]

Mehmet Yousouf wrote:
> Hi, 
> I'm trying to run system commands from zope, I want to pass arguments to the 
> external method (e.g. something like:  "commands.getoutput('ls -l "argument 
> passed from zope" > some_file') is this sort of thing doable?
> Any suggested reading materials for playing around with external methods?
> 
> Regards, Mehmet

First, you have thought about the security of that (same like doing 
something like this in a CGI).
To answer your question:
http://www.zope.org/Documentation/How-To/ExternalMethods

btw. it was the first match when searching www.zope.org for
external method ;-).

cheers,
oliver