[Zope] Calling a Script from ZPT

[Tino Wildenhain]

--On Montag, 18. September 2006 06:43 -0700 Ferhat Ayaz 
<ferhatayaz at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> a quick and newbie question:
>
> How can I call a Script (Python) within a page
> template. I'm using the 'define' tag:
>
> <tal:contain
>  define="no_matter_var
> python:context.mycall(myParam)"/>
>
> Is there a more serious way to do this?

Yes, don't do it :-)

PageTemplates are "views" and as such not
supposed to have sideeffects on application.

I'd do it in the application code instead,
e.g. before the pagetemplate is called.

(Yes you can return the result of a call to
a pagetemplate from a python script if you
want it easy :-)

e.g. python script:

doseomething ...

return context.thepagetemplate(arg1=var1, ...)


Regards
Tino