Re: [Zope] newbie-ish dmtl-in question

Hi, Russell

<dtml-in> operates on list-ish things, which means it barfs on integers like your variable "iterations". Fortunately, python to the rescue: "_.range(iterations)" makes a list-ish thing with "iterations" number of things from zero to "iterations -1". Look in any python reference for range() if you need more, and check the zope docs, too because _.range() is limited in zope for a fairly obvious reason.

home, home on the range()

-- Jim Washington

This answer is great! I guess the thing that puts me off about all the dtml/python stuff is the syntax of stuff I've never really seen in another programming language: an underscore then a dot to start the function off. I find that to be very strange. Thanks for the help! Russell