[Zope] python script trouble?

[Stefan H. Holek]

Kate!

Please be aware that there are a lot of things you are not allowed to do 
from PythonScripts for security reasons, opening disk files being one of 
them.

I suggest to create an External Method for this. More info is available 
here:

<http://zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/2_6Edition/ScriptingZope.stx>

Stefan


--On Mittwoch, 12. November 2003 09:20 -0500 Kate Legere <klegere at kfpl.ca> 
wrote:

> I am calling a python script 'addToFile' from a dtml method:
> <dtml-call expr="addToFile()">
>
> the script is meant to open a pre-existing file and write to it:
>
>    f=open('file1', 'wt',1)
>    f.write('hello')
>    f.close
>
> At the moment I am just writing a test to see if it works and, it doesn't.
> I get, when I view the calling dtml method,
>
>     Error Type: NameError
>     Error Value: global name 'open' is not defined
>
> I have looked through the Python bible and am at a loss to think where I
> have erred.
>
> Kate
>
>
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