[Zope] passing lists as function parameters

[Dieter Maurer]

Eric Roby writes:
 > Maybe I am really missing something here, but for some time, I have been
 > trying to figure out why when I pass a list to a python script, it
 > becomes a sequence of characters.  When I duplicate the process within
 > the interpreter, it works as I expect it to.  An example to demonstrate
 > what I am talking about:
 > 
 > Interpreter test-
 > >>> listDef = [1,2,3,4,5]
 > >>> def foo(x):
 > ...         for member in x:
 > ....            print member
 > ...
 > >>> foo(listDef)
 > 1
 > 2
 > 3
 > 4
 > 5
 > >>>
 > 
 > In Zope, if I create the equivalent of the foo function in a python
 > script, passing a list in the parameter field, I get the following:
 > 1
 > ,
 > 2
 > ,
 > 3
 > ,
 > 4
 > ,
 > 5
You do not pass a list here but a string and you iterate over
the bytes of the string.

When you would pass a true list and not just a string that looks like
(the string representation of) a list, then it would work as
you expect.


Dieter