Reda Guermas wrote:

I am building a dictionary in an external method:

dict = {'user_name':'jim', 'password':'powers'}

I also add it to the request: container.REQUEST.set('results', dict)

The problem is that I am unable to retrieve the results dictionary on my dtml document. When I do: <dtml-var "REQUEST.get('results')"> I can see my dictionary but I am not able to get the individual values in the dictionary.

You're simply not doing it right: <dtml-var "REQUEST.get('results')['user_name']"> Don't post question like this to zope-dev, use the regular zope list. And you should read the Python tutorial: http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/tut.html -Michel