[Zope] TAL Syntax for Iterating Over List of Dictionaries

[Chris Meyers]

Your repeat line should look something like this:
<tbody tal:repeat="item python:scriptThatReturnsArticleList()">

HTH,
Chris Meyers

On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 10:26:19AM -0700, Dan Shafer wrote:
> Thanks, Chris, but where in the TAL do I invoke the ListAllArticlesDict 
> script that generates the list of dictionaries? IOW, how do I *get* the 
> articleList structure into the ZPT so I can iterate over it? That's where 
> I'm stuck.
> 
> At 08:09 AM 6/6/2002 -0400, Chris McDonough wrote:
> >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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