[Zope3-dev] Re: Python Tab for Page Templates

[Chris Withers]

Jeffrey P Shell wrote:
> 
> Seriously - I'd like to see the need for this proposed and defended.  I 
> have some Page Templates in an existing site that do use a rather 
> intense "preloader" Python Script that builds all the data structures 
> necessary for the page, but the page in question and the Python Code are 
> kept rather separate (not in the same folder - barely even in the same 
> branch of the site).  One reason that we did this is because our 
> customer has access to the page templates for the main site, but we 
> don't want to give him access to any application-level Python Code.

I think you've explained your reason here ;-)

> There's also this to think about (hence the need for a proposal).  If 
> you put a "Python Tab" on a Page Template, what do you see when you edit 
> via FTP?

In an ideal world, you'd see a folder with the name of your template. In that 
would be a 'zpt' file and a 'python' file... This would work for the other 
file-like scenarios you mention.

> FWIW, I do this when the situation warrants::
> 
>   <tal:setup define="global extended something/that/returns/a/dict" />

Indeed, but where does your something come from? Unless you have reasons like 
yours above, you'd probably want it to come from somewhere near your page 
template. A tab seemed like a nice idea to us at the UK sprint...

cheers,

Chris