[Zope] Converting REQUEST style lists into real lists

[Albert Ting]

Tomek Giela writes:
> From: Tomek Giela <zope@server.imagination.com.pl>
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] Converting REQUEST style lists into real lists
> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 04:19:53 +0000
> 
> When you put into your form:
> 
> <input type="checkbox" name="varia" value="1">
> <input type="checkbox" name="varia" value="2">
> <input type="checkbox" name="varia" value="3">
> <input type="checkbox" name="varia" value="4">
> <input type="checkbox" name="varia" value="5">
> <input type="checkbox" name="varia" value="6">
> 
> and then select first three of them and submit that form, 
> you'll get in form "action" document:
> 
> <dtml-var varia>
> 
> displayed as: ['1','2','3']
> 
> Is there an easy way to convert 'varia' into a list?


Along the same lines, is there a way to have it return a complete array
instead of just listing those that were checked?

  <dtml-var varia>
  displayed as:  ['1','2','3','','','']

Thahnks,
Albert