In restricted code, you can use the function same_type.
if same_type(var, []):
...
Florent
On 7 Mar 2007, at 12:01, Winterflood, Jonathan wrote:
Hi,
Thanks, that works just fine :)
Any idea why the other one didn't?
Jonathan
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Date: mer. 07/03/2007 11:30
Cc: [email protected]
Objet : Re: [CPS-devel] (no subject)
hello,
did you try isinstance(val,str) ?
2007/3/7, Georges Racinet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Mar 7, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Winterflood, Jonathan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm developping a product, and in one of my form processing
> scripts, I'm having to handle a number of checkboxes with the same
> name, say,'boxname'.
>
> In the context.REQUEST.form dictionary, I have this:
> with only one box ticked, dict['boxname'] is 'value_of_the_box'
> with multiple boxes ticked, dict['boxname'] is a list of these
values
>
> I'm trying to change the single string to a one-element list,
> however, I can't test the type of the value...
> Whenever I try to use the __class__ attribute, my script won't
> compile in Zope ( "__class__ is an invalid attribute" ...)
> Therefore I can't test whether I have a list or a string.
> I would use isinstance(val,list), but 'list' seems to behave as
> though it was 'list()' inside Zope, instead of giving me <type
'list'>
>
> Both these work in a python console... I'm obviously missing
> something, but what?
Aah, restricted code :-) You can't access all attributes, and some
other magic occurs.
Sometimes, it's not homogeneous to current Python. I don't know about
lists, but I do know that you can't use 'set' (appeared in
python 2.4).
> Is there a better way?
Anyway, I think that if you explicit specify type your input in the
html <input name=l"ist:boxname"> then you should get a list no matter
what.
I'm not 100% sure, but you should give it a try.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Jonathan
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