I am moving this to Zope-Dev. At 02:50 08/11/99 , David S. Harrison wrote:
After a little experimentation, I found that the values submitted via a form are placed into the receiving DTML document's name space. That is very nice. Now I am wondering whether these values are also available to external methods I call as part of the evaluation of the receiving DTML page. Let me be more specific: suppose I have an external method:
def ComputeColumns(self): # Find the value of 'testcase' in the enclosing name space? return computeList(testcase)
The DTML page that calls this external method has a form variable named 'testcase'. Is there some way I can use the self object to evaluate names in the enclosing name space? Or should I try to call the method explicitly with arguments? Right now, the code in the DTML page is kind of nice:
<dtml-in ComputeColumns> <LI><dtml-var sequence-item> </dtml-in>
I suppose I could change it to be a call. But I am not clear on what should be used for the name of "ComputeColumns" or how it should be called. My first guess would be:
<dtml-in "self.ComputeColumns(testcase)">
But I haven't tried it yet. I am hoping there is some method I can call using 'self' to evaluate name space variables in an external method.
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