[Zope] Removing " 's from strings

I'm trying to make an id from a string, but the string has " on each end of it, and I can't find a way to get rid of them in Zope. I thought of something like: <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('thing', _.string.translate(thestring, _.string.maketrans('',''), '"'))"> But that seems to treat it as the start of a piece of text, and so then thinks that the dtml-let I have just before that line doesn't have a closing tag! A way to use the url_quote parameter at the same time as setting it's value in the REQUEST thingy would be good, but I don't how to work it. Can anyone help? Peter Armstrong _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com