[Zope] List editing with page templates

[Richard Wesley]

I need to create a form (using page templates) that does roughly this:

<BasicData>

<selectable list of homogenous objects to attach to BasicData>

<list of homogenous objects already attached to BasicData>

The problem is that I can't seem to make the attached list 
persistent.  In my action script for attaching a new list object, I 
check the request to see if the list is present and append the 
selected object to the attached object list, but the script never 
seems to have access to the request passed to the form.

Slightly simpler test script (trying to accumulate two form variables):

names=[]
if request.has_key('names'):
	names=request.get('names')
names.append ({'name':name,'age':age})
request.set('names',names)
return container.form()

What am I missing?

TIA,
- rmgw

<http://www.electricfish.com/hawkfish/>

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