A while after I submitted this, I figured it out. Here's the fix: return HTML.__call__(self) This evaluates the string as DTML using the environment that called the python method. The example is modified below: <<<Example>>> from Globals import HTML def myproc(): mystring = "<dtml-in mysqlselect><dtml-var id>, <dtml-var value></dtml-in>" mydtml = HTML(mystring, globals()) return HTML.__call__(self) <<<End of Example>>>

-----Original Message----- From: Chuck Burdick (TT) Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 11:05 AM To: 'zope@zope.org' Subject: Evaluating dtml from python

I have a string that I want to evaluate as dtml from within a python method. How do I send the namespace to the HTML object so that it understands the <dtml-var> tags?

<<<Example>>>

from Globals import HTML

def myproc mystring = "<dtml-in mysqlselect><dtml-var id>, <dtml-var value></dtml-in>" mydtml = HTML(mystring, globals()) return HTML.__call__()

<<<End of Example>>>

Right now when I call this from Zope, it will interpret standard HTML tags just fine. Zope appears to parse the dtml tags, but I'm getting a KeyError on 'mysqlselect' which leads me to think that the HTML object does is not inheriting (or otherwise receiving) the current namespace.

How do I pass the namespace? Is there a better way to do what I want?

Thanks in advance, Chuck Burdick

Web Administrator / Developer Trading Technologies, Inc.

chuck.burdick@tradingtechnologies.com (847) 424-8844