Getting the number of results returned by a Catalog query is a thing that folks commonly want to do, and usually just doing len(resultset) works OK. I'm surprised it didn't for you. That said, it's an extremely expensive operation under some circumstances because it un-lazifies the carefully-lazified Catalog resultset, creating a brain object for each matching catalog record. If there's a way to not do this in your application, I'd recommend it. Timothy Wilson wrote:
Hi everyone,
Let's say I've got a PythonScript called 'getResults' that does a catalog query. What is the proper way to get how many results were returned by getResults in DTML? For example, <dtml-var "len(getResults)"> doesn't work (I didn't think it would). I've tried some other variants without success. Any ideas?
-Tim
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