[Zope] DTML type casting?

[hans]

davis marques wrote:

> >So it seems that this should do the job:
> >
> >       <dtml-if "ProjectID in projectfiles.fileIds()">
> >             The directory "&dtml-ProjectID;" exists
> >       <dtml-else>
> >             "&dtml-ProjectID;" does not exist
> >       </dtml-if>
>
> I've tried the above already and it didn't work.  The only way it works
> right now is if I manually enter a string to match (ex. '202006').
> ProjectID is the name of a field being pulled from a database query. I'm
> wondering if I somehow have to cast it as a string, or ?

If ProjectID is not a string, yes. _.int(ProjectID)
there is no "type"-concept in python, but in databases

hans

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