[Zope] signatures

Chris McDonough chrism@zope.com
Thu, 29 Nov 2001 12:51:38 -0500


Old timers tend to recommend the ZQR, because it used to be the only
place for this kind of info besides the source.  However, most of
these methods are now documented in the help system  (API reference).

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Price" <cprice@orbik.com>
To: "Horst Wald" <horstwald@hotmail.com>
Cc: <zope@zope.org>; <website-talk-admin@list.ora.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] signatures


> This is a pretty good place to find that kind of stuff:
>
> http://zdp.zope.org/projects/zqr/ZQR/objectreference
>
> Many times, when there is not quite enough info at that URL, I will
just
> go look at the source code to figure out the signature.  If you are
on
> linux (or probably any unix platform), you can just cd to your zope
> directory and do this:
>
> find . |egrep "\.py$" | xargs grep -i "def manage_blabla"
>
> and most of the time that will find you what you need.
>
> chris
>
>
> On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 10:53, Horst Wald wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > when I try to use Zope functions like manage_blabla I normally
view the
> > html-source of the page that calls them and then try to guess what
args they
> > take, especially of what type the args are. Sometimes I'm not to
successfull
> > with that strategy - is there a page where you can get all these
functions
> > togehther with the args they take? Like the C++ prototypes?
> >
> > Horst
> >
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