[Zope] Getting an object indirectly in a PythonMethod

[Evan Simpson]

Hannu Krosing wrote:

> "Jay, Dylan" wrote:
> >
> > I have a python method as part of a ZClass. I want this method to return an
> > object whose id is stored in a ZClass property. In DTML this would be as
> > simple as <dtml-return "_[ObjNameProperty]">
> > I can't figure out how to do this in a python method. Things such as
> > self.getattr(ObjNameProperty) don't seem to work at all.
>
> try getattr(self,ObjNameProperty) , it has workwed forr me (once ;)

'return getattr(self, ObjNameProperty) ' will indeed return the named
attribute.  Be aware, though, that this is equivalent to <dtml-return
"_.getitem(ObjNameProperty,0)"> and *not* quite the same as <dtml-return
"_[ObjNameProperty]">.  The second form does magic namespace rendering of the
object, and would look something like 'return getattr(self,
ObjNamePropertry)(self, REQUEST)'.

Evan @ 4-am