Doh! I answered my own question. I have been struggling with this for a day now, and I finally understand! What was happening was that, whether it is a dtml method or document, when called from within a python script, I needed to pass that dtml object the scripts container object. Then, to get to the choose_template script from within the dtml object, I could just go: <dtml-var expr="container.choose_template(params)"> Thanks for the help :-) On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 10:28, Andrew Altepeter wrote:

Hello All,

I'm fairly new to zope, so please bear with me on this question.

I have a file, buried in:

/site/dir1/file1.html

This file calls a python script located in:

/site/ssi/choose_template

Which then calls:

/site/ssi/dir1/template_section_x(param1, param2, etc..)

With a few parameters.

If template_section_x is a python script, or a page template, zope acquisition works, and accessing the parameters works.

However, if template_section_x is either a dtml document or method, acquisition does NOT work, neither does accessing those parameters.

I have tried '<dtml-var choose_template>' to recursively load another template section, and zope complains that it can't find the object.

I have also tried '<dtml-var param1>' to access the parameters, and again zope complains that it doesn't know what I'm talking about.

I am convinced that this is some sort of acquisition problem, because if I call: /site/ssi/dir1/template_section_x directory from the web, the acquisition of /site/ssi/choose_template works just fine.

Do you have any suggestions about what I should try next, or an explanation of why this isn't working?

Thanks in advance for the help, Andy

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