[Zope] tuples of length 2 in DTML

[Andreas Jung]

--On Donnerstag, 14. April 2005 12:20 Uhr -0400 Jim Abramson 
<jabramson at wgen.net> wrote:

> Tuples of length 2 just don't seem to work in DTML.  I don't know what
> it is, certainly never seen any documented explanation before.  The
> simple test below explains itself .
>
> Can anyone explain why the results are what they are?  I'd go to the
> collector if it didn't seem like such a glaringly obvious quirk.  I
> figure there must be some sensible reason why this happens, but my
> manual is missing that page.
>
>
> <pre>
>
> <dtml-let tt="[('a',),('b','c',),('d','e','f')]">
> tt: <dtml-var tt>
>
> <dtml-in tt>
> tt[<dtml-var sequence-index>]: <dtml-var sequence-item>
> </dtml-in>
>
> </dtml-let>
>
> </pre>
>


This is a well-known behaviour and considered a feature for historical 
reasons (don't
ask why...). Try to add the 'mapping' attribute inside dtml-in.

-aj
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