Felipe Alvarez Harnecker wrote:
>
> Hi Zopistas,
>
> it's a pain looking to variables defined in a form such as checkboxes
> that can be a string if one is selected or a sequence if many are.
>
> to solve this problem i'd like to do something like:
>
> <dtml-let checkbox="list(checkbox)">
> ...
> ...
> </dtml-let>
>
> That is, calling the list function of Python on checkbox.
>
> But that doesn't work, neither <dtml-let checkbox="_.list(checkbox)">
>
> Beside of this, is there a way to test if foo is a string or a
> sequence or whatever ??
Sounds like you might want this
http://www.zope.org/Members/Zen/howto/FormVariableTypes
Coerce your form fields into the types you require by using magic
incantations of the form variablename:type.
--
Steve Alexander
Software Engineer
Cat-Box limited
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