Peter Armstrong wrote:

I'm trying to make an id from a string, but the string has " on each end of it, and I can't find a way to get rid of them in Zope.

I thought of something like: <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('thing', _.string.translate(thestring, _.string.maketrans('',''), '"'))">

But that seems to treat it as the start of a piece of text, and so then thinks that the dtml-let I have just before that line doesn't have a closing tag!

A way to use the url_quote parameter at the same time as setting it's value in the REQUEST thingy would be good, but I don't how to work it.

Can anyone help?

Uh, IIRC, there's some way of quoting in zope-dtml-python, though I don't remember what it was. Workarounds: Use chr(34) (the ascii code of "), or use thestring[1:-1] if the "'s are really at the beginning and end. The latter could be more correct anyway, cause maybe you don't want to delete "'s _inside_ your string. cheers, oliver