[Distutils] buildout examples clarification

[Reinout van Rees]

On 12/23/09 8:38 PM, Jeff Kunce wrote:
> I am using the buildout page on pypi as a reference
>    http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout
>
> What is the python shell used for the examples?  I can follow what is
> going on, but I'm not familiar with some of the functions used. For
> example:
>    >>>  write(sample_buildout, 'recipes', 'mkdir.py', ...)
>
> Sorry if this is a silly question, but I'm stumped.  Thanks.

Those write() and cat() and ls() methods are helper methods that are 
provided by zc.buildout's own test setup.


(Technically: they're injected into the test's globals namespace, look 
for a ``test.globs['write'] = some_write_method`` in test*.py if you 
want the details)

Really handy when testing zc.buildout. But they might just be a "little 
bit hidden" away in the test setup code ;-)


Reinout


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