[Zope] newbie-ish dmtl-in question

[J. Cameron Cooper]

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>This answer is great! I guess the thing that puts me off about all the 
>dtml/python stuff is the syntax of stuff I've never really seen in another 
>programming language: an underscore then a dot to start the function off. I 
>find that to be very strange. 
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For what I presume to be security reasons, DTML doesn't have access to 
the Python built-ins. Instead it uses a number of DTML functions which 
live in the DTML namespace (thus the underscore notation). You can see 
these at

http://www.zope.org/Members/michel/ZB/AppendixA.dtml

in the 'functions' section, as well as in your friendly Zope Help DTML 
reference.

Granted this is a rather curious way of accessing its built-in 
functions. It should encourage you (nudge nudge) to work more with 
Python Scripts (which are much more like the Python we know and love).

        --jcc
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