On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Tim Hicks wrote:
Thanks Albert and Oleg. If I'm honest, while I have become somewhat familiar with what Albert describes as zope's 'multiple personality disorder', I can't say I truly understand it. I still don't think I've got my head around the _['whatever'] syntax. From what Oleg says, if there is a method there, it will be called, otherwise it reverts to a string! Wow, that sounds like an awkward way to go about things. If I have that point right, how would I force zope to treat it as a string using the _[ syntax?
I think you cannot. Probbaly the best you can try is _.getitem("thing", 0) ^ do not render the object Oleg. ---- Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ phd@phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.