[Zope] Passing parameters to external methods

[Tony McDonald]

At 10:18 pm +0200 14/9/00, Dieter Maurer wrote:
>Andreas Pauley writes:
>  > I need to pass some parameters to my external methods.
>  >
>  > I have an external method that looks (somewhat) like this:
>  >
>  > def extAccess(self, accttype_cde):
>  >     return accttype_cde
>  >
>  > ....
>  >
>  > <dtml-if "extAccess(accttype_cde='COM')">
>  >   <b>The external method returned true</b>
>  > </dtml-if>
>  >
>  > I get the following error for the above statement:
>  > Error Type: TypeError
>  > Error Value: not enough arguments; expected 2, got 0
>
>External methods try to be intelligent with respect
>to parameter passing and sometimes they get it wrong.
>
>You may explicitly pass all parameters:
>
>   <dtml-if "extAccess(this(),'COM')">

Is *that* what this() does!!

Enlightenment....aaah.

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