[Zope] <!--#var dir/name not possible?

[Amos Latteier]

At 12:16 PM 3/15/99 -0000, julian@zereau.net wrote:
>On 15-Mar-99 Jeff K. Hoffman wrote:
>> I think you need <!--#var img.name-->.
>
>okay next qustion: I have a image under a folder called "images".
><!--#var "images.somefilename"--> should work - except that the image
filename
>contains the "." character (eg: "foo.gif") and this gets confused with the
dot
>notation of the object (it tries to find images/foo/gif and chokes with a
>traceback)

In general, when you have trouble spelling an object's name in a variable
expression because its name is not a legal Python name (e.g.
'sequence-item' or 'foo.gif') then you should use _[] or _.getitem

However in your case you can simply get the sub-object with a plain old
getattr:

<!--#var "_.getattr(images,'foo.gif')"-->

Another possibility is to use the with tag:

<!--#with images-->
<!--#var foo.gif-->
<!--#/with-->

Since these are so ugly, you might consider the simpler manual method of
generating the img tag:

<img src="images/foo.gif">

or else you might consider *not* having a images directory, and keeping
your images in the Folders where they're used. Then you can refer to the
images directly:

<!--#var foo.gif-->

And because of acquisition, foo.gif is accessible to all sub-Folders of the
Folder it is located in, in the same way.

-Amos