[Zope-dev] Question about using CatalogAware

[Amos Latteier]

At 06:23 PM 8/4/99 -0400, Kevin Dangoor wrote:
...
>  <STRONG>Error Type: AttributeError</STRONG><BR>
>  <STRONG>Error Value: no __call__ method defined</STRONG><BR>
>
>>From the traceback:
>    (Object: _[default_catalog](searchfor))
>  File &lt;string&gt;, line 0, in ?
>AttributeError: (see above)

>If I replace "_[default_catalog](searchfor)" with "Catalog(searchfor)", the
>method works.

_[spam] gives you a *rendered* spam (yum!).  _.getitem(spam,0) gives you
the raw spam without rendering it.

Try "_.getitem(default_catalog,0)(seachfor)"

-Amos

P.S. This is kind of documented in the DTML Guide,

http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Guides/DTML/DTML-HTML/DTML.4.3.2.3.html