Re: [Zope] convert a String ...

2001-01-14 Thread Peter Bengtsson 

To "convert" a string to an object, you use the getitem() function.

## example 1:
Your: dtml-var last_name
#returns:
Your: Peter Bengtsson

## example 2:
dtml-call "REQUEST.set('var_to_go_and_get','last_name')"
Your: dtml-var "_.getitem(var_to_go_and_get)"
# returns:
Your: Peter Bengtsson

There's more

You could also do this:

dtml-var "_[var_to_go_and_get]" or dtml-var "_['last_name']"

The different between _['foo'] and _.getitem('foo') is tricky. 
Check out (somewhere in the middle):
http://www.zope.org/Documentation/How-To/AdvancedDTML
 
 Hi,
 
 how is it possible to convert a string into my own zclass type?
 I get a String from a form and want to do some operation like
 string.manage_addFile(... on it. So what to do ??? Perhaps some out there is
 able to help ...
 
 Thanks,
 
 Marc
 
 
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Re: [Zope] convert a String ...

2001-01-14 Thread Dieter Maurer 

Marc Fischer writes:
  how is it possible to convert a string into my own zclass type?
  I get a String from a form and want to do some operation like
  string.manage_addFile(... on it. So what to do ??? Perhaps some out there is
  able to help ...
"_.getitem(string)" converts a string into an object.

Probably, you will not get a "zclass type".
But such a type would probably not have a "manage_addFile" method
anyway.

Do you mean "Z Instance" rather than "zclass type"?


Dieter

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