[Zope] type conversion required?

[Martijn Pieters]

At 12:52 01/07/99 , Graham Chiu wrote:
>I would like to save the html product of a database query for subsequent
>recall.
>
>If I have something like this:
>
><!--#in sqlMethod-->
>   <!--#call "REQUEST.set('htmlString',htmlString+PRICE+'</td><td>'+DESCR
>IPTION+'</td><td>)"-->
><!--#/in-->
>
>where PRICE is a numeric field from the database, then I get a typeError
>- presumably because PRICE is numeric and the others are text.
>
>How do I convert PRICE into a string to avoid this problem?

By using the str method of the _ object:

<!--#call "REQUEST.set('htmlString', htmlString + _.str(PRICE) + 
'</td><td>' + DESCRIPTION + '</td><td>)"-->

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