[Zope-dev] Advice on DTMLDocument

[Steve Alexander]

Andy McKay wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> Well a while ago I came across a bug that I couldnt cut and paste and
> object. A few people helped me out on that, thanks. Ive had a week of
> squishing bugs and finally got to this one. The reason why? I was
> subclassing DTMLDocument but using my own __init__ (similar to one where I
> dont subclass from DTMLDocument), where I didnt fiddle with __name__. The
> result was when absolute_url() was called I was getting:
> http://fork:8080/code/test/ElementWithAttributes  !

In your __init__ method, try putting this line in:

YourClassName.inheritedAttribute('__init__')(self, id)

This is assuming that you have the argument "id" in your __init__ method.

I've no idea whether it will solve your problem, as I haven't tried to 
reproduce it.

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Steve Alexander
Software Engineer
Cat-Box limited
http://www.cat-box.net