[Zope] curious list problem

[Mark Nenadov]

Hello all,

In python I would normally do the following to make a associative array
(with an element that is a list) empty:

thing['items'] = []

This seems like such a minor thing to do, but I can't seem to get this
to work with DTML. How would I do the equivalent in DTML??? I've tried
using REQUEST.set() and also just a straight dtml-call expression, and
neither seemed to work.

I'd appreciate some help or guidance.

~Mark