[Zope] String to Object

[Chris Withers]

"Leichtman, David J" wrote:
> 
> Does anyone now how I might take a string and turn it into an object
> reference in DTML?
> 
> By that, I mean, I want to take a string like: 'object.subobject.subobject'
> from a database,
> and I want to reference it as <dtml-var object.subobject.subobject>.
> I think this is a simple, straightforward thing, but I've been wracking my
> brain over it.

Well, your eample will work just fine with some quotes and a bit of fun:

<dtml-var "object.subobject.subobject(_.None,_)">

but only because . is the seperator is python object syntax...

cheers,

Chris