[Zope] Newbie DTML question

[Timothy Grant]

At 05:02 PM 2/1/99 -0500, you wrote:
>At 11:14 AM 2/1/99 -0800, Timothy Grant wrote:
>>At 09:36 AM 2/1/99 +0200, you wrote:

>The above construct won't work, since "with" only applies to its lexical
>nesting scope.  Use <!--#call "REQUEST.set('tempvar',tempval)"--> instead.

Thanks Phillip! This was the missing piece. It works beautifully now.

>>>_[Category] should give you indirect access to the variable whose name
>>>is the value of Category.  Note the lack of quotes around Category (as
>>>opposed to your code above).
>>
>>>Tell me if this doesn't work for you (and I'll look more into it).
>>
>>This unfortunately does not work at all, when I use it I get the Zope Error
>>message saying Zope is unavailable.
>
>View the HTML source of the error message to get more details on what is
>happening.

Wow, I wish I had known you could do this a while ago! It would be nice if
there were a developer mode where this information comes up by default in
the message.

Thanks for your kind assistance!

Here's the traceback:

<!--
 Error type:  
 Error value: _[Category]
 -->
</BODY></HTML>
<!--
Traceback (innermost last):
  File
/home/brian/temp/build/tmp_build/Zope-1.9.0-linux2-x86/lib/python/ZPublisher
/Publish.py, line 879, in publish_module
  File
/home/brian/temp/build/tmp_build/Zope-1.9.0-linux2-x86/lib/python/ZPublisher
/Publish.py, line 595, in publish
    (Info: /Pricing/index_html)
  File
/home/brian/temp/build/tmp_build/Zope-1.9.0-linux2-x86/lib/python/OFS/Docume
nt.py, line 181, in __call__
    (Object: index_html)
  File
/home/brian/temp/build/tmp_build/Zope-1.9.0-linux2-x86/lib/python/OFS/Docume
nt.py, line 177, in __call__
    (Object: index_html)
  File
/home/brian/temp/build/tmp_build/Zope-1.9.0-linux2-x86/lib/python/DocumentTe
mplate/DT_String.py, line 514, in __call__
    (Object: index_html)
  File
/home/brian/temp/build/tmp_build/Zope-1.9.0-linux2-x86/lib/python/DocumentTe
mplate/DT_In.py, line 687, in renderwob
    (Object: PriceCategories)
KeyError: (see above)

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