[Zope] Re:Select List

[Jason Spisak]

Alexander 

Ha, that subject sometimes is the one thing I forget :)

Thanks for the external method sugestion.  I think I'll go with Ty's
Terrific Tables.  (A little Alliteration goes a long way :)

Jason Spisak
webmaster@mtear.com

Alexander Staubo wrote:
> 
> [What's this subject line to do with your question?]
> 
> Sounds like an ideal use of TinyTables if there ever was one. I think
> performance will be excellent.
> 
> The alternative, which is likely slightly faster but not quite as
> elegant in terms of object-orientational succinctness and flexibility,
> is to write an External Method which returns a Python dictionary of the
> values you need. Eg.,
> 
> def GetMySelectLists():
>   return {
>     'apples': 'oranges',
>     'pears': 'bananas',
>     [... more items here ...]
>   }
> 
> --
> Alexander Staubo             http://www.mop.no/~alex/
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> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: root@zope.codeit.com [mailto:root@zope.codeit.com]On Behalf Of
> >Jason
> >Sent: 14. juli 1999 00:11
> >To: zope@zope.org
> >Subject: [Zope] Re: Zope digest, Vol 1 #186 - 49 msgs
> >
> >
> >Hey Zopesters,
> >
> >I have large select lists that I need on my site and I was wondering if
> >TinyTables is the best way to do an <!--#in--> tag insertion of all the
> >possible values.  It's not quite a uniqueValuesFor situation because
> >there are some values which we don't want available.  The list might be
> >about 100-200 or so items long.  Is that going to be to slow in a
> >TinyTable?
> >
> >All my best,
> >
> >Jason Spisak
> >webmaster@mtear.com
> >
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