[Zope] deleting objects in a folder from a script

Dieter Maurer dieter@handshake.de
Wed, 9 Jan 2002 21:41:32 +0100


Tim Hicks writes:
 > <snip>
 > 
 > > I use this approach because I have already the function which does 2).
 > > Now I browsed through the ObjectManager API, but I cannot find a way to
 > > delete a certain child-object. How can I do that?
 > 
 > Assuming 'parent_folder' is a variable holding the parent folder object of
 > what you are trying to delete and 'id' is the id of what you want to delete,
 > I think this is what you want...
 > 
 > parent_folder.manage_delObjects(id)
Almost - note the plural:

       "manage_delObjects" needs a sequence of ids. Therefore, you need to use

   		parent_folder.manage_delObjects([id])


Dieter