[Zope] Building a list programmatically under DTML

[Martijn Pieters]

At 14:45 07/09/99 , Evan Simpson wrote:
>Martijn Pieters wrote:
>
> > And straight again =):
>
>[snip]
>
> > But, you can't change a dictionary after creating it.
>
>And one last teensy straightening <wink>.  You can use the update method of
>dictionaries to change them, thus:
>
><dtml-call "REQUEST.set('letsgo', {1: 'a one'})">
><dtml-call "letsgo.update({2: 'and a two'})">
><dtml-call "letsgo.update({(1,2,3,4): 'and a one, two, three, four!'})">
>
>You cannot, AFAIK, delete keys from DTML.  You can make a new copy of the
>dictionary with only selected keys, but you're better off in External Methods
>(soon PythonMethods!)

Aaarg. I knew I should've checked the Library Reference as well.. =)

Evan, you're King.

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