It is returning a string. I had that problem too. It's another of those DateTime/path problems --- MySQLdb returns a date outside Zope but a string inside Zope. -Mike Orr, mso@mso.oz.net -or- mso@oz.net (permanent: mso@jimpick.com) http://mso.oz.net/ English * Esperanto * Russkiy * Deutsch * Espan~ol On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 01:11:48PM -0500, jeffr@odeon.net wrote:
Hmm, that didn't work. I get a Zope error of:
Error Type: TypeError Error Value: not all arguments converted
What I think is the relevent portion of the traceback shows:
File /usr/local/Zope/lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Var.py, line 313, in render (Object: date) (Info: ('date', '2000-04-25', {'null': '', 'fmt': 'aCommon', '': 'date'}))
I think the problem is the string returned from MySQL isn't a date object as far as Zope is concerned.
Any help is appreciated,
Jeff
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Yanko, Curtis (GSP) wrote:
Just figured this one out myself a week or two ago. I use something like this:
<dtml-var date fmt=aCommon>
If you are using a Zope Date/Time object, this should work.
-Curt
-----Original Message----- From: jeffr@odeon.net [SMTP:jeffr@odeon.net] Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 12:02 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Newbie date/time + MySQL problem
Greetings folks,
I've got a record in an SQL database that contains a date field (2000-02-25 for example).
I'm generating a table from an SQL query. The bit that displays the date is pretty simple: <dtml-var date null="">
I want to format the date into something a little more readable (like 'Feb 25, 2000' for example). I've been trying to figure out how to use the date-time format functions mentioned in the DTML guide in Appendix A. It mentions the special variable _, which provides a method for constructing date time values from strings and numeric data.
I think my question is really a matter of syntax, as the DTML guide doesn't provide any examples of usage in Appendix A.
Would I use something like: <dtml-var _.aCommon(date) null=""> ?
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Jeff
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