[Zope] problem with python script

[marc lindahl]

Doesn't dtml have a function to do that?  Check the zope book.

> From: "D. Rick Anderson" <ruger@comnett.net>
> Reply-To: ruger@comnett.net
> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 13:43:10 -0800 (PST)
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] problem with python script
> 
> I am having a horrible time with a python script. The idea is to get a
> dollars-and-cents formatted string from the 3.87987234233e-1234 type string
> that the Sybase server is returning. The python script looks like this:
> ---
> final = (float(int(float(number[0:10]) * 100)) / 100)
> 
> return final
> ---
> with one parameter (number)
> 
> when I call it with either:
> <dtml-call expr="numberTrim(number=cur_bal)">
> or
> <dtml-var expr="numberTrim(number=cur_bal)">
> 
> I get:
> Error Type: TypeError
> Error Value: unsliceable object
> 
> if I use the "test" at the top and enter a value it works fine and if I
> hard code a value it works as well. The only time it WON'T work is when
> it's called with the cur_bal variable. Has anybody ran into this before?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rick
> 
> 
> 
> 
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