Re: [Zope-dev] Asking for the type of a variable

On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, David S. Harrison wrote:

Actually, the reason this arises is forms. I have a series of radio buttons in a form. When submitted to Zope, I notice that if one item is selected, the value is a string. When many items are selected, the value is a list of strings. Since <dtml-in> does not accept a single string as an argument, I need to test to see if the incoming value is a string or a list of strings before processing it. I will

You can just append :list to your variable in the Form and it will automatically get converted to a list. Then you can use <dtml-in ...> even for one item. Pavlos