On 4 Aug 2000, at 22:10, Dieter Maurer wrote:

Brad Clements writes:

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However first-eventday is ALWAYS true, however when I print &dtml- eventday; the output value is always the same for each row, so first-

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eventday shouldn't be true on any row except the first.

Almost surely, the "in" tag does not call a callable object (because it does not expect, they could be callable). You, therefore, get the method itself. It is identical for all records.

So true, the solution is to define an __init__ class in the brain class, then use that to populate "self". class PackageEvent: """Package Event Pluggable Brain""" def __init__(self): """initialize""" self.__dict__['eday'] = self.eventday() def eventday(self): return DateTime(apply(time.mktime,self.eventtime.tuple()[:3]+(0,0,0,0,0,-1 ))) Now 'first-eday' works. Brad Clements, bkc@murkworks.com (315)268-1000 http://www.murkworks.com (315)268-9812 Fax netmeeting: ils://ils.murkworks.com AOL-IM: BKClements