[Zope-dev] Asking for the type of a variable

[Pavlos Christoforou]

On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, David S. Harrison wrote:

> 
> Actually, the reason this arises is forms.  I have a series of radio
> buttons in a form.  When submitted to Zope, I notice that if one item
> is selected, the value is a string.  When many items are selected,
> the value is a list of strings.  Since <dtml-in> does not accept a
> single string as an argument, I need to test to see if the incoming
> value is a string or a list of strings before processing it.  I will

 You can just append :list to your variable in the Form and it will
automatically get converted to a list. Then you can use <dtml-in ...> even
for one item.

Pavlos