install python
download python tarball of python here.
untar and change to the directory in your terminal and run config:
./configure --prefix=/opt/python-2.4.3
run make to compile the stuff:
make
and then install it:
make install
install zope
download tarball here
./configure --with-python=/opt/python-2.4.3/bin/python --prefix=/opt/zope-2.9.3 make make install
after that you are ready to create a zope instance:
/opt/zope-2.9.3/mkzopeinstance.py
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Every once and a while i need to gather data in a html form and pass the results to a python script. The last time i needed it when working on a widget for the CoordinateField while working needed for the Loccata project.
This example is a nice cheatsheet on how to do define a form that collects the data needed by the following function:
def myFunction(simplelist, rec): print 'List:', simplelist print 'Rec:', rec
the form code somewhere in a pagetemplate looks like this
<form action="myFunction" tal:attributes="action string:${here/absolute_url}/myFunction">
<input type="hidden" name="simplelist:list" value="hi0">
<input type="hidden" name="simplelist:list" value="hi1">
<input type="hidden" name="simplelist:list" value="hi2">
<input type="hidden" name="rec.name:records" value="james">
<input type="hidden" name="rec.age:records" value="007">
<input type="hidden" name="rec.name:records" value="foo">
<input type="hidden" name="rec.age:records" value="4711">
<input class="context" type="submit" value="Call!"/>
</form>
if you submit the form, you’ll get the following result:
List: ['hi0', 'hi1', 'hi2']
Rec: [{'age': '007', 'name': 'james'}, {'age': '4711', 'name': 'foo'}]
