[Zope] Dynamic dictionary keys?

2006-02-27 Thread Andrew Hedges
Allow me to preface this by saying I am a complete newbie to Zope (I prefer to think of it as beginner's mind...). What I am attempting to do is dynamically add items to a dictionary, but Zope complains keyword can't be an expression. Here's the reduced case of my code: dtml-let

Re: [Zope] Dynamic dictionary keys?

2006-02-27 Thread Jonathan
- Original Message - From: Andrew Hedges [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: zope@zope.org Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 11:56 AM Subject: [Zope] Dynamic dictionary keys? Allow me to preface this by saying I am a complete newbie to Zope (I prefer to think of it as beginner's mind...). What I am

Re: [Zope] Dynamic dictionary keys?

2006-02-27 Thread Andreas Pakulat
On 27.02.06 09:56:49, Andrew Hedges wrote: Allow me to preface this by saying I am a complete newbie to Zope (I prefer to think of it as beginner's mind...). What I am attempting to do is dynamically add items to a dictionary, but Zope complains keyword can't be an expression.

Re: [Zope] Dynamic dictionary keys?

2006-02-27 Thread Andrew Hedges
Andreas and Jonathan, Thanks for the responses! As I said, I am completely new to Zope/ Python, so I appreciate your help. I'll look into how this could be done with a Python script instead of DTML, but this version of our product is all DTML, so that's why I'm using this solution for

Re: [Zope] Dynamic dictionary keys?

2006-02-27 Thread Jonathan
- Original Message - From: Andrew Hedges [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jonathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 12:14 PM Subject: Re: [Zope] Dynamic dictionary keys? Thanks, much, Jonathan! We're moving to Zope 3 on the next version of our software, but what I'm working

Re: [Zope] Dynamic dictionary keys?

2006-02-27 Thread Lennart Regebro
On 2/27/06, Andrew Hedges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allow me to preface this by saying I am a complete newbie to Zope (I prefer to think of it as beginner's mind...). Welcome! And let's start with killing off two ideas that most newbies have (because the documentation gives it to the,): 1.

Re: [Zope] Dynamic dictionary keys?

2006-02-27 Thread Jean Jordaan
Hi Andrew Allow me to preface this by saying I am a complete newbie to Zope In that case, please skip DTML and go straight to ZPT. DTML is like the ghost train in an amusement park, but the ghosts are real. Especially if you're a newbie. dtml-let eventsDict={} dtml-let calstart=somestring