Thanks much for the reply. When I try to use restrictedTraverse or unrestrictedTraverse in my python script I always get the error: Error Type: NameError Error Value: global name 'restrictedTraverse' is not defined I did spell it correctly and mine looks like the examples I find on the net. What does this error mean? Dieter Maurer <dieter@hands To: Rebecca.R.Hepper@seagate.com hake.de> cc: zope@zope.org Sent by: Subject: Re: [Zope] Newbie: Python:Path Troubles zope-admin@zo pe.org No Phone Info Available 07/11/2002 02:41 PM Rebecca.R.Hepper@seagate.com writes:
I am trying to use python:path in a html form to get a path name which I will pass to a python script and use the setDescription function on. What is the "path name"? Do you mean the "URL"?
... If I print my python:path statement into a table header I get something like: "<PortalFolder instance at 90a24a0>" ... <td><input type="hidden" name="folderPath" value="folderPath" tal:attributes="value python:path('root/MyPortal/folderA/%s' % folderID)"></td> This is exactly, how "path" should work:
It turns a path into an object, in this case into a "PortalFolder" object. As the generated HTML can only contain strings, ZPT calls the "str" method on the object. This results in "<PortalFolderI instance at ...>". What you need to do: Pass the path string itself as value of the hidden variable. Use "restrictedTraverse" in you Python Script to resolve it into an object. Call "setDescription" on this object. Dieter _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )