I'm trying to produce the following results in an HTML form list/menu where: <dtml-var name> - <dtml-var descirption> gives me something like: [ http://www.zope.org - the official Zope homepage ]

I only want the first few characters of the description though i.e. [ http://www.zope.org - the official... ]

I'm having a little problem getting the desired results though as I get an *Error Type: KeyError* *Error Value: description[0]*

<dtml-in expr="getLinks(category=_['name'])"> <option value="<dtml-var url>"><dtml-var name> - <dtml-var expr="_['description[0]']"> <-- problem here obviously <dtml-var expr="_['description[1]']"> | | <dtml-var expr="_['description[9]']">... </option> </dtml-in>

Could someone point me in the right direction?

Well, how about <dtml-var description size='10'> That'll automatically truncate anything longer... and give you the '...' at the end ( unless you specify your own etc='blah blah blah' attribute ) me = { 'name' : 'Zachery Bir', 'email' : 'zbir@urbanape.com', 'voice' : '(804) 353-3742', 'url' : 'http://www.urbanape.com/' }