[Zope] Dicts in folder attributes

[Anthony Baxter]

I think you'll find that TinyTable (from the contrib area of the
zope site) will do what you want.

Anthony

> Paul told me how to extract a list of column names from a returned SQL
> result. Now I need my DTML document to have ready access to a dict
> mapping the potential names to human-readable names, so that whichever
> columns show up in my result, the DTML knows how to display it.
> 
> Basically where my table could contain column names like 'DOB' I want to
> display 'Date of Birth', but without actually knowing whether 'DOB' is
> present in the output prior to rendering the page. 
> 
> Therefore I want to make a dict like {'DOB':'Date of
> Birth','SSN':'Social Security Number',...}. But since this is not really
> data that is solely relevant to that single DTML document, I would
> rather not have to specify it by an ugly <!--#with
> "_.namespace(trans_table={'DOB'...}-->. 
> 
> Is making an External Method class and assigning the results to map to
> that class my only option? I would prefer a folder attribute, because an
> External Method requires me to go back to the filesystem to change it;
> but folder attributes don't seem to have dict as an option. 
> 
> Any ideas would be appreciated. [Note: this would be much easier if
> there was a non-containing version of 'with'. Something that edited the
> actual namespace, instead of making an altered namespace available to
> its contents. It would be much easier to pull in sets of variable
> references from other DTML documents.]
> 
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