Andrei Belitski writes:

I add a list property to a DTML document of type 'tokens' (e.g. '[1, 2, 3]') wenn i try to retrieve it with _.getitem i get '[1,' '2,' '3]' instead of '1' '2' '3' Are you sure, it was '[1,' '2,' '3]' and not ['1', '2', '3', '4']?

If it were, it would be really strange, unbelievable. ['1', '2', '3', '4'] would be normal, when you use a list (it definitely is one!) in e.g.: <dtml-var "_.getitem('toks')"> as a list (of cause) can not be part of a generated HTML page. It must be converted into a string. And the above it the string representation of a list. To get the representation, you seem to favour (though I do not understand why), you could use: <dtml-var "_.str(_.getitem('toks'))[1:-1]"> This make the string conversion explicitly ("_.str") and then keeps the slice "[1:-1]" which means everything beside the first and last character, i.e. you chop the '[]'. Dieter