febb wrote:
Hi Thanks for replying. Sure I did. Actually I did called the script from a DTML Method / DMTL Document objects to be executed as the ACTION of an (html) FORM.
there are different points in time. rendering the DTML happens on the server before the result is sent to the browser. you may see what the browser has received w view/source or so. then on the client (=browser) system a <form> is submitted and the resulting request sent back to the server. On the server, ZPublisher prepares a REQUEST object for you and, since the url is your python script, ZPublisher calls it. a DTML file's <form> does not call your script directly. all the browser sends is strings. You may tell ZPublisher to convert these strings to something else by exploiting a little trick on the form variable names (see again http://www.zope.org/Members/Zen/howto/FormVariableTypes, also http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope/book/chap3.html) Or, you may convert by using _.int(), _.float etc as converters, which unfortunately applies to simple values only. writing your own converter is a bit trickier.
The same thing happenned. It was evaluated as a STRING instead of as a LIST as it actually is.
I would have expected that the behavior of a plain python program (tested directly under python prompt), then the same program "ported" to be a Zope python script tested witht the internal Zope's "test" tab and later on called from DTML would behave the same.
Any ideas?
hans