[Zope] tal assignment

[David H]

David H wrote:

> David Bear wrote:
>
>> I wanted to assign a list object to a tal global variable but I can't
>> seem to find the correct syntax. I tried:
>>
>> <div tal:define="global mylist=['item1', 'item2']"     tal:content="">
>>     blah
>> </div>
>>
>> but it doesn't like that syntax. Googling turns up thousands of items
>> that deal with tal but I can't see a simple example of assigning a
>> list object to a variable name.
>>
>>  
>>
> Im not a tal expert but if you just put everthing inside of ....
> <div tal:define="python: mylist=[...
>
>
> </div>
>
> Your fine.
>
ah heck
it should be:  <div tal:define "someName python: alist[like so] ..."

</div>

where someName is global inbetween the <div>s and the "global" modifier 
can be pointless.