[Zope] side-effect of dtml-if
Dieter Maurer
dieter@handshake.de
Mon, 24 Sep 2001 21:27:26 +0200 (CEST)
Oliver Bleutgen writes:
> I just ran into something which might be a
> surprising side effect of dtml-if - well, for
> me at least. Tried it on two different zope 2.3.3
> installs.
>
> Here's the problem
>
> dtml-method foo should be changed, but it might
> not exist, so we test it
>
> <dtml-if foo>
> <dtml-call "foo.manage_edit('bar','')">
> </dtml-if>
>
> Surprisingly this gives the following error
> Error Type: AttributeError
> Error Value: 'string' object has no attribute 'manage_edit'
You find an explanation in
<http://www.dieter.handshake.de/pyprojects/zope/book/chap3.html>
-> DTML -> If.
Dieter