[Zope] Reading lines from a Zope File object

[J Cameron Cooper]

Andy McKay wrote:
> J Cameron Cooper wrote:
> 
>> You can get the main contents of a File with the 'data' attribute. It 
>> returns a string.
> 
> I think it actually returns an object (for large file support), if you 
> want the data as a string you need to string it.
> 
> So for small files:
> 
> datastr = str(context.fileObject.data)
> 
> Should work.

Yes, forgot that caveat. For large files, 'data' can return a "Pdata", a 
list of strings. For small files, it returns a string. Always doing 
'str' is a good idea.

		--jcc

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