From: "Greg Conway" <greg@gmlnt.com>
I'm managing (very slowly!) to ease myself from DTML to Python, but I have just hit a bit of a snag...
Now, are you talking python scripts or python products? There are differencies...
What I've done is stored these values within a form using a loop
Store where?
and now I need to retreive the values in python. I can see them in the request, and can access them via REQUEST.specify1, REQUEST.specify2, etc - but not programmatically!
That *is* programatically.
So my question is (please somebody take pity on me!!), how can I perform the following (pseudo code!!) in python?
TestVar = ( 'REQUEST.specify' + str(OutsideLoop.CatID) )
This doesn't work, obviously!
Why do you have single quotes around REQUEST.specify? That turns it into a string, you know...
What I really want to do is (I think)...
TestVar = eval("REQUEST.specify" + str(OutsideLoop.CatID))
No it isn't, what you want to do it to get rid of the quotes. And you may want to try REQUEST['specify'] instead. I'm not sure what type REQUEST is in pythonscripts but in normal python it is a dictionary. You might also want to look at using parameters instead of chugging everything into REQUEST.