----- Original Message ----- From: Michel Pelletier <michel@digicool.com>

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<dtml-var "_.getattr(eric(), 'half/a/bee')">

Ouch!

I can see changing var to work with relative paths, but not getattr. You can try and convince me otherwise but I think _.getattr should work as much like the python getattr as possible (after all, it *is* the python getattr!).

<chuckle> This happens to be the simplest case, since it *isn't* Python's getattr -- it's careful_getattr. In fact, I included a patch to careful_getattr in my original post! The others are more painful, since they involve patching DocumentTemplate name parameter handling and <shudder> cDocumentTemplate, respectively. Anyway, in the absence of an altered _.getattr, what would be the best way to get an unrendered equivalent of <dtml-var a/b/c>?