If I understand your question correctly, all you need is making your varaiable global by adding the keyword global in front of it. <a tal:def="global abc python:1" /> I have a sample that migth help you: http://salome.redcor.net/wikis/CodeSnippets/view (look at the link with a sample rigth at the end) Robert Laura McCord wrote:

The concept that I am working on is not difficult but I keep running into barriers in zope. I am using a zope page template that displays a table of data retrieved from my database. I need to create a link that once clicked will call a zsql method that will redefine:

<div tal:define="results here/view_pc_sql; start request/start|python:0; batch python:here.getBatch(results)"> . . . </div>

So, initially the data is displayed based on the zsql method view_pc_sql. Now, I need to add a link that will redefine the results variable using a different zsql method. The problem I have been having is the fact that I am trying to redefine the results variable in a <a href..> so once I close it </a> it does not retain the values I just inserted once I get to displaying the data further down the page.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely frustrated, Laura _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )