[Zope] Passing Dictionary

[Ronald L Roeber]

I'm trying to pass a dictionary from a form to a script. The following are
snips from the Page Template that contains the form.
-----------------------------------
. . .
     <input type="radio" name="feed.calc_method:records" value
="ration_cost" checked>
    . . .
       <input type="hidden" name="feed.feed_cost_ton:float:records:default"
value="0">
        <input type="text" name
="feed.feed_cost_ton:float:records:ignore_empty">
    . . .
        <input type="hidden" name="feed.fed_per_day:float:records:default"
value="0">
        <input type="text" name
="feed.fed_per_day:float:records:ignore_empty">
. . .
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What shows up in the REQUEST object is this:

feed = [calc_method: 'ration_cost', fed_per_day: 6.0, feed_cost_ton: 66.0]

This is not a dictionary (len(feed)=1) it looks like a one element list
(that looks like it was or is trying to be a dictionary). Using Zope 2.5.0.

What am I doing wrong?

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Ronald L. Roeber
CIT-IANR
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE 68583  Phone: (402) 472-5630
email: rroeber1@unl.edu