[Zope-dev] Zope 2.12 and Globals.DevelopmentMode

[Tres Seaver]

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Sylvain Viollon wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:14:07 -0500
> Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
> 
>    Hello,
> 
>> There was never any guarantee that Globals would be fully popluated
>> before the start of product initialization:  third-party code needs to
>> defer checking that flag at "import" time (which is the point of the
>> pattern Hanno outlines).
>>
>> An even better pattern would probably be to avoid the Globals "dumping
>> ground" altogether and use the configuration object directly:
>>
>>   from App.config import getConfiguration
>>   config = getConfiguration()
>>   if config.debug_mode:
>>      ....
>>
> 
>    As matter of fact I tried that. And it always returned False
>    (that's why I posted that mail at first). I have to review my setup,
>    to see if there is something wrong, before I can continue to argue.
> 
>    I am using buildout and plone.recipe.zope2instance.

That sounds as though you grabbed the configuration "early" (before
startup has loaded it from the config file / command line options).  You
*can't* to this at module scope, because your module may be imported
before the initialization has been done.


Tres.
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