[Zope] python ignorance shining through...

[Tony McDonald]

At 1:09 pm +0100 14/9/99, Phil Harris wrote:
>Hi tone
>
>If I understand correctly you want to get the contents of an object but you
>only have the name and not a reference to it, correct?

corrrrect!

>If that is the case then try this:
>
>try:
>   template_str = eval("self.RENDER.%s.read_raw()" % tagclass)
>   template = DocumentTemplate.HTML(template_str)
>   theresult = template(self, content=content)
>   return theresult
>except KeyError:
>   return "no renderer for %s" % tagclass
>
>The eval will take a string and evaluate it in the current context, this
>should use the contents of tagclass to create a callable reference to that
>tagclass object.

sweeeet!

(I actually changed the last bit to
except:
   pass
as I had some additional processing to do...).

Nice one Phil, one I owe yer mate! :)
Tone.
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