[Zope] List

[Jim Washington]

Tom Deprez wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm storing a selection of a user to a database as string. This selection
> is a multiple selection from a select box and is outputted as a list.
> Now I want to iterate over this list (after retrieving it from the
> database), but how can I do this? How can I tell Zope that the string is
> actually a list? How can I typecast in Zope?

Use a python or external method to make a list from your string.  I am
supposing you are storing a string representation of the list that looks
like:

"['fred', 'bob', 'mary']"

Get rid of any punctuation you do not want with (e.g.) 

theString = string.replace(theString, '[', ' ')

(Yes, there are more efficient ways to do this!)

Then, once you have a space-delimited list of items, you may use

theList = string.split(theString)

which will make a list of the words in the string.  Return theList.

-- Jim Washington