[Edward Pollard]

On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 11:39 AM, Passin,Thomas B. (Tom) wrote:

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[ Edward Pollard]

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Is this the incorrect way to compare strings? Is there a

better way

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to do this?

if a==b: #do something

I tried this. It did not work. My thoughts are that == would compare the pointers to the objects, not the contents.

It works for ordinary Python sequences and strings:

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a='this is a test' b=''this is a test' a==b 1 b='xxx' a==b 0

For other object, it depends on how the comparison has been coded in the class or type.

Code wise, I have this <span tal:condition="python:items.title_or_id == template.title_or_id" tal:replace="Content I want">Filler</span>

items being the list I'm iterating through.

So the obvious (==) didn't work (apologies for not clarifying this in the first place), the next-obvious (cmp) didn't work, what will?

You may have to use the string value for the comparison. Cheers, Tom P