Hi Thanks for replying. Sure I did. Actually I did called the script from a DTML Method / DMTL Document objects to be executed as the ACTION of an (html) FORM. The same thing happenned. It was evaluated as a STRING instead of as a LIST as it actually is. I would have expected that the behavior of a plain python program (tested directly under python prompt), then the same program "ported" to be a Zope python script tested witht the internal Zope's "test" tab and later on called from DTML would behave the same. Any ideas? Edward ----------------------------------------------------------

Message: 48 Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 11:00:31 +0200 Organization: http://freemail.web.de/ From: <net_seeker@web.de> To: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Help with unconsistent behavior of parameter passing to Python Scripts.

Hi, looks to me like the test-screen parameter input-field is not evaluated as=

an python instruction, but as a string. did you try to feed the script with a "real" list through dtml/other script =3F

Torsten

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Hello all:

Having the following Python script:

if same_type(RR,[]): return "It is a list" if same_type(RR,'abcd'): return "it is a string"

If I use on the parameter's list (sme scrren where the Python script is edited) the value:

RR=[['04-03-2001','0900','MEX','PBA','0300','N'],['04-03-2001','1100','MTY','NLD','0300','N'],['04-03-2001','1600','NLD','MTY','0300','N']]

and proceed to TEST the script with the test tab, I am asked for the value of RR (two fields), if I give nothing, then the message

"It is a list" is printed, as expected.

But, if the same thing, (except the initial RR=) is fed into the values field at the test page, then the result comes as a "string", which is NOT the intended effect.

This is just a brief test to find out what is going on, the goal is to be able to feed into a Python script, a list of lists that the script will process and output another list of lists. We have been unable to obtain this as the scripts always ends getting a string instead of the wanted list (of lists).

Can anyone be so kind to explain the behavior of this ? And, to provide some samples on how to make this work correctly ?

By the way, we started with a perfectly working *.py program file , converting it into a script which behave on a similar way to the test just shown.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Edward.