D. Rick Anderson writes:
I'm trying to reformat a date that I'm getting from our Sybase server. I get it in yyyy/mm/dd format and I'm trying to change it to mm/dd/yyyy format. I've created a DTML method called fixDate that looks like this:
<dtml-call expr="REQUEST.set('date', _.str(date))"> <dtml-let newDate="date.split('/')" month="newDate[1]" day="newDate[2]" year="newDate[0]"> <dtml-var month>/<dtml-var day>/<dtml-var year> </dtml-let>
It works if I call http://www.ourdomain.com/fixDate?date=2002/12/25, but if I try to use it from a DTML document I get:
Error Type: NameError Error Value: global name 'REQUEST' is not defined Looks like a standard error: calling a DTML object without its two positional arguments. Please read the "Calling DTML objects" section in
<http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope/book/chap3.html>
If I take out the first line then I get:
Error Type: AttributeError Error Value: split Then your "date" is a "DateTime" object which does not have a "split" method (as you probably understand).
You can use "_.str(date).split('/')", instead. Dieter