From: D Blanding

Hello- I'm new to Zope... (have read the Zope Book) and have used Python. For my first Zope project, I'm building a web application that stores and retrieves stuff from the Z-Gadfly RDB. I have successfully written a python script which calls a zsql method which selects all the records of my table.

You might want to not use ZGadfly, it have a feeling it doesnt store data between reboots...

(The table is not very big.) The python script then converts each record to a list (adding a couple of fields and doing some arithmetic, etc.) then appends all these lists together into one big list. The python script takes no arguments.

Now I want to display the data in a table. So I plan to call the python script from a dtml method which will present the data. But I don't know how to do this. Can anyone give me advice on how to do this?

<dtml-call pythonScript> or since you passing through data and wanting the python script to print stuff <dtml-var "pythonScript(list=the_list)">, you will need specify list as an argument in your python method.

Also, once I succeed in calling the python script, I'm not sure how I will parse a list of lists in dtml. I have seen examples using:

<dtml-in> <dtml-sequence-item> </dtml-in>

to parse lists but how do I read through a list of lists?

Preferably do it in python and as little as possible in dtml. <dtml-in list_one> <dtml-in "_['sequence-item']"> <dtml-var sequence-item> </dtml-in> </dtml-in> Or something like that. Thanks. -- Andy McKay.