Hi, I need to test the type of an object for the following reason: I have a form, one of the inputs being a <SELECT NAME="name" MULTIPLE> etc. Now, when there are more than one item selected in this <SELECT> list, then the variable <dtml-var name> is a list (think) which can be used in a <dtml-in name> </dtml-in> iteration. The problem is if the user selects one item, then the variable "name" is a string, containing the one item that was selected. The problem is that if one simply does a <dtml-in name> iteration without checking the type of the variable "name", then the method will fail when the user only selects one item from the list. Hence I need to know the type of the variable "name". How do I find this out? Is it possible to call the python function type() from within a dtml method? If not, how else does one handle this situation? thanks Allen