[Zope] Re: Python or DTML

[Andy McKay]

> ...if I call an external method as an action resulting from a
> form post, and spit out raw html, it works great.  BUT I cannot
> seem to use DTML objects very easily from within it.

You can, its just very difficult.

> Not so if one of those DTML
> methods is an EXTERNAL method which would like to manipulate
> DTML methods (from its own folder) with the same ease--or so
> I think, being unable to find really *good* documentation
> on exactly what I can do with my "self."  (if a posting is
> going to be long, it darn well better be entertaining...)

...erm yep its difficult. I tried to write and explanation, but figured
after a while that I didnt really understand the exact reason why not. I
have rendered dtml in python by writing a class that is derived from DTMLDoc
(similar to the Wiki style).