[Zope] headache

[D. Rick Anderson]

well .. I backed it up a level and it worked ok. I was calling a method 
within an sql method within a document within a document, etc... I'm 
sure it had something to do with the namespace, but now I'll never know. lol

Thanks,

Rick


Kevin Teague wrote:
> Works for Me(tm)
> 
> I put the first two lines in a DTML Method and called them from another 
> DTML Method, and dateYear is correctly set. I'm using Zope 2.5.1.
> 
> D. Rick Anderson wrote:
> 
>> Arrggh. I'm stuck on somthing really simple here. I have the following 
>> statements in a method:
>>
>> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('periodsplit', _.str(period).split('-'))">
>> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('dateYear', _.int(periodsplit[0]))">
>>
>> If I set the var 'period' and view it directly it works just fine 
>> (period is in the format 2002-5), but if I call it from another object 
>> (methodname(_.None, _, period='2002-11')) it errors with:
>>
>> global name 'periodsplit' is not defined
>>
>> and the error points to the second call there. How can it not be 
>> defined? I just set it?!!? Is REQUEST.set not pushing those onto the 
>> namespace when called from another object? I've never had this problem 
>> before.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Rick
>>
>>
>>
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