[Zope] telnetlib script help

[Jack Coates]

Figured it out -- when putting it into an external method, I needed to
return instead of just printing.

Off to the regex'ing of output now...

thanks
Jack

On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 00:12, Edward Muller wrote:
> Put the script in an External Method is the easiest solution most
> likely.
> 
> Basically what's happening is that some python modules are considered
> unsafe so you can't access them directly inside of zope without changing
> zope's module permissions. 
> 
> The easiest work around is to put these methods into an external method.
> 
> Hope that helps
> 
> On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 18:09, Jack Coates wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm fair-to-middlin' with Perl and have no Python knowledge. I'm trying
> > to do a Python script which grabs some information from a telnet
> > interface on the same machine:
> > 
> > import sys
> > import telnetlib
> > 
> > HOST = "localhost"
> > 
> > tn = telnetlib.Telnet(HOST, 9090)
> > 
> > tn.write("title ?\n")
> > tn.write("album ?\n")
> > tn.write("artist ?\n")
> > tn.write("exit\n")
> > 
> > print tn.read_all()
> > 
> > That works from the command line (well, I'll be figuring out how to
> > regex-prettify the output later), but doesn't work from Zope: I've
> > enabled import of sys and telnetlib, but it now pops up auth dialogs
> > repeatedly. Hitting cancel makes it say "
> > Error Value: You are not allowed to access write in this context".
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong? I'm open to making it an external method, but
> > when I tried to do so it quit working from the command line.
> > 
> > thanks,
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Jack Coates
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