[Zope] Still Chipping Away At Formulator/ZPT Interface

[beno]

At 09:43 PM 11/4/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi beno,
>
>  > Hi;
>  > Okay, I *am* going to write a How-To on this when I get it all figured 
> out
>  > with your help. This needs to be done.
>  > In DTML, we do this to render the fields:
>  >
>  > <dtml-in "form.get_fields()">
>  > <dtml-let field=sequence-item>
>  > <tr>
>  > <td><dtml-var "field.get_value('title')"></td>
>  > <td><dtml-var "field.render()"></td>
>  >
>  > etc. How do I do this same thing in Python? Here's the start of the code:
>  >
>  > mailhost=getattr(context, context.superValues('Mail Host')[0].id)
>  >
>  > This much works. Now, I need to be able to call the values of the
>  > Formulator form (named *email_us_formulator*). An example of a value is
>  > *YourEmail*. How would I access this value with Python?
>
>  Maybe read the fine python tutorial ;-)

How many times? I imagine it will eventually start to sink in...

>e.g. the equivalent to "<dtml-in> are "for" loops:
>
>  form = context.email_us_formulator
>  for fiels in form.fields():
>    print '<td>' + field.get_value('title') + '</td>'

Hmmm. This didn't work. It threw an AttributeError on *fields*. Just to be 
sure, I changed your line to
for x in form.fields():
and it was the form.fields() that was erroring. Why would it work in DTML 
and not in Python?

>  Scott Burton has written an HowTo which may be helpful either:
>
>http://www.zopelabs.com/cookbook/1032909599

Yep. Read it many times. Before I ever wrote the list. Some of it's pretty 
obtuse. And it's written specifically for password authentication: not my 
application.

>  It is also linked via the Formulator page on zope.org ... looking up
>the resources in the web may even be faster than asking the list ;)

I try. Really, I do :))
Thanks,
beno