[Zope] ZPT / TALES question

[Paul Winkler]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 12:09:42PM -0600, AJ Coon wrote:
> TALES uses the 'options' variable to store the dictionary of key/value 
> pairs passed into a ZPTemplate when it gets parsed.  My question is: 
> What 'is' options?  Obviously, it is some sort of dictionary, but what 
> does it inherit from, etc.?
(snip) 
> <input type="hidden" name="copy" value="" tal:attributes="value 
> options/copy">
> 
> I had passed a variable named 'copy' into the options dictionary with my 
> own value
(snip)

It might well be a standard dictionary.  Dictionaries in python
have a copy() method which returns a copy of the dictionary.
The TALES path expression calls the method, so you get the
method's return value rather than the method itself.

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