It's been about 18 months since I last looked at Zope and a lot seems to have changed, especially in terms of security (eg. the administrator no longer being able to create objects etc). Most changes I've got to grips with but this one I can't figure out - I loop over the results from a ZSQL method which returns a variable mydate that I wanted to split into year, month, day values. <dtml-in ZSQL_SelectDates> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('myyear', _.string.split('mydate', '-')[0])"> ... other code </dtml-in> This causes an error - File <string>, line 2, in f (Object: guarded_getitem) File C:\PROGRA~1\ZOPE-L~1\bin\lib\string.py, line 114, in split File C:\PROGRA~1\ZOPE-L~1\lib\python\DateTime\DateTime.py, line 1106, in __getattr__ AttributeError: split OK, I know there are multiple ways for me to get around this - a) use a slice such as mydate[0:4] should work. b) force the variable 'mydate' into the REQUEST first. eg. <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('mydate', mydate)"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('myyear', _.string.split('mydate','-')[0])"> etc But what I really want to know is why can't I use string.split() on the variables returned from a ZSQL method ? Thank you. Stephen. ps. All this Guarded stuff looks new. What's its purpose ? -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net