[Zope] Newbie question

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 10:55:50PM -0700, gpgreen@olywa.net wrote:
> I am just getting started in Zope and have what is probably an obvious question.
> I have an external method that returns a list. I understand how to write
> dtml to iterate through the list using <dtml-in>. My question is how do
> I write a dtml-method that takes the current sequence-item and does something
> in it.
> 
> So in index_html
> 
> <dtml-in "my_external_method()">
>  
>   <dtml-var the_other_dtml_method(sequence-item)>

The syntax you want, if I've understoof the question, is (untested):
	<dtml-var "the_other_dtml_method(_['sequence-item'])">

You need to do it this way because the stuff inside the quotes is a python
expression and hyphens are not permitted in Python variable names. So you use
the magical _ namespace, which contains things like sequence-item as a key.

Cheers,
Malcolm

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