[Zope] Newbie still having problems understanding namespaces

[David Lambert]

Thanks for your quick response. At last I think I am getting the hang of 
this. One other related question is:
What is the differnce between:

ZopeTime(), and _.DateTime()?

TIA

Dave.


On Thursday 09 August 2001 14:56, E. Seifert wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> try
> <dtml-var expr="_.abs(-23)">
>
> David Lambert wrote:
> > I'm sure this is a case of RTFM, but I think I may be reading the wrong
>
> FM!
>
> > Looking at the DTML reference section n the Zope Book (PDF version) on
>
> page
>
> > 228, I see a set of DTML functions which I had assumed I could call, for
> > example:
> >
> > <dtml-var expr="abs(-23)"> which I would have expected to evaluate to 23.
> >
> > Instead I get the error:
> >
> > Error Type: NameError
> > Error Value: global name 'abs' is not defined.
>
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