[Zope-CMF] DTML weirdness

[Tom Bech]

Ok, I give up. There's something here I don't grok...

I have a super-simple python script called 'get_news_list'
which looks like this:

---

objs = []

catalog = context.portal_catalog

for objref in catalog.searchResults(meta_type='News Item'):
  objs.append(objref.getObject())

return objs

---

And I have this DTML method:

---

<dtml-let list="get_news_list()">

<dtml-var list html_quote><br><br>

<dtml-in list>
  <dtml-let item=sequence-item>
    <dtml-var "item.id"><br>
  </dtml-let>
</dtml-in>
</dtml-let>

---

When I call the above DTML method I get this error message:
 
Error Type: AttributeError
Error Value: 'string' object has no attribute 'id'

If I change the DTML method to:

---

<dtml-let list="get_news_list()">

<dtml-var list html_quote><br><br>

<dtml-in list>
  <dtml-var "id"><br>
</dtml-in>
</dtml-let>

---

I get the expected output:

[<NewsItem instance at 01C9AF38>, <NewsItem instance at 01B1FF98>]

test2
test1

Notice the html_quote'ed list shows the items as being NewsItem instances,
not strings. Why can't I access the newsitem via the obj variable in the
first DTML example?

Tom