[Zope] Converting REQUEST style lists into real lists

[Thomas B. Passin]

[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?
> 

That ***is*** a list, and you can feed it to <dtml-in>

Cheers,

Tom P