[Zope] Calling command line code from DTML or Python script?

[Paul Winkler]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 10:41:26AM +0200, Geir B?kholt wrote:
> Darshan,
> Thursday, April 15, 2004, 4:10:50 AM, you wrote:
> 
> > Hi all
>  
> > Just trying to find how do you call a Command line function (something
> > like a shell script in Unix or a cmd file on Windows env) through zope.
>  
> > How can you call a shell script / cmd script using DTML ? Any ideas?
> > A python script would do but calling thru DTML is the preferred
> > objective right now!
>  
> You need to make an External Method, then call that one from DTML (or
> preferably ZPT or a pythonscript - you really shouldn't use DTML)
> External Methods have the privileges to call things on the filesystem,
> though-the-web-code does not.

You could also install ZShellScripts from here:
http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/

Disclaimer: I've never used it and the idea sounds a bit nutty :-)

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