Newbie question

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Maître Soubi <soubies at ese-metz.fr> wrote in message
news:<7v7c0b$1r3$1 at news.univ-metz.fr>...
> I am a French student, and I'm gathering information for a project I have
to
> conduct...
> I am currently pondering the possibility that I use Zope as an intranet
> server, but I need some information in order to know if it is worth
learning
> the Python language from scratch.

Yes, it is extremly worth

> I need to write an application that would take all forms of documents
(.doc,
> .xls, etc...), then send it to Zope to be published on the intranet, and
> keep a trace of the date somewhere.

Zope supports WebDAV, and if your users use Windows(I suppose:-) this can be
done by drag&drop.

> This application should be as easy to use and as user-friendly as
possible,
> since most of its users won't know much about computers.
> I plan to make an icon, to which you would drag your document, and then
all
> the conversions and the publishing would be done  automatically.
> Do you know if it is possible, and if it is, how hard is it?
> Is Python the language I should use for such a task?

Of course yes.
Arpad Kiss