[ZPT] Re: TALES namespace names cannot contain '-'

Steve Alexander steve at canonical.com
Fri Sep 2 03:13:26 EDT 2005


> Yes, unless Zope 3 TALES is very unlike Zope 2 TALES.  We deliberately
> restricted the syntax of namespaces to be valid variable names in Python
> (and most other languages).  This allowed, for example, direct use of
> the name of a namespace as a function in a Python expression:
> 
>   python:x and path('%s/%s' (base, x))

I don't understand this example.

I see that there's meant to be a '%' operator in there.

But, I don't understand what "use of the name of a namespace as a
function in a Python expression" means, and I see only the function
'path' above.


-- 
Steve Alexander


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