[Zope] TAL Syntax for Iterating Over List of Dictionaries
Chris McDonough
chrism@zope.com
Thu, 06 Jun 2002 08:09:29 -0400
Untested:
<table>
<th>Title</th>
<th>Summary</th>
<tbody tal:repeat="item articleList">
<tr><td tal:content="item/title"></tr>
<tr><td tal:content="item/Summary"></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
Dan Shafer wrote:
> Given a Python script that returns a list of dictionaries that looks
> like this:
>
> [{'title': 'Article 1', 'Summary': 'Summary of Article 1'} {'title':
> 'Article 2', 'Summary': 'Summary of Article2'}]
>
> and the need to create a table in a ZPT template that has the key of
> each dictionary in column 1 and the summary of each dictionary in column
> 2, could someone give me correct tal syntax? I think I can see how this
> would work if I were returning a single dictionary (though I haven't
> been able to get that to quite work yet) but I can't find anything about
> iterating over a list of dictionaries from TAL.
>
> For completeness, here's the Python script. It iterates over all objects
> in a folder from which it is run. Obviously it needs error-checking and
> other doodads, but hopefully this is enough to enable someone to help me
> here.
>
> Thanks.
>
> articleList=[]
> for x in context.objectValues():
> articleInfo={}
> articleInfo['title']= x.getProperty('title')
> articleInfo['Summary'] = x.getProperty('Summary')
> articleList.append(articleInfo)
> return articleList
>
> (And, yes, I do have this working as a pure ZPT page. I'm trying to
> learn to use Python from ZPT correctly for cases where larger amounts of
> information or more complex pre-processing rule out pure ZPT solutions.)
>
>
>
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