[Zope] stupid question I guess

[josh on]

wow great answer, thanks that has just peeled off another layer of zope
mystery for me.

can this be put in the dynamic faq?

josh on


----- Original Message -----
From: Tony McDonald <tony.mcdonald@ncl.ac.uk>
To: Zope List <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] stupid question I guess


> At 2:55 pm +0100 7/6/00, Chris Withers wrote:
> >josh on wrote:
> >>  can I set a local variable in zope on a dtml page
> >>  <dtml-var variablename = 1>
> >
> >Yup:
> >
> ><dtml-call "REQUEST.set('variablename',1)">
> >
> >Nice syntax, huh? ;-)
> >
> >Chris
>
> now now :)
>
> (tested)
>
> <dtml-let variablename="1">
> blah blah blah ... ie the scope of the variable
> <dtml-var variablename>
> </dtml-let>
>
> don't fall into the trap of doing this
> <dtml-let variablename="I am a string">
> blah blah blah ... ie the scope of the variable
> <dtml-var variablename>
> </dtml-let>
>
> 'cos Zope won't let you enter it (it thinks that the 'I' is a
> variable name). Remember that anything in " " is evaluated as a
> Python expression...
>
> try this instead
> <dtml-let variablename="'I am a string'">
> blah blah blah ... ie the scope of the variable
> <dtml-var variablename>
> </dtml-let>
>
> You can have multiple variables set too...
> <dtml-let variablename="'I am a string'" bloot="1">
> blah blah blah ... ie the scope of the variable
> <dtml-var variablename> :: <dtml-var bloot>
> </dtml-let>
>
> See lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Let.py for more details...
>
> hth
> tone
>
>
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