Dieter Maurer wrote:
>
> Richard Jones writes:
> > As the subject says, REQUEST.set('n', n+1) is broken on zope.org. The
> > following DTML will raise an AttributeError on __add__:
> >
> > <dtml-call REQUEST.set('n', 1)>
> > <dtml-call REQUEST.set('n', n+1)>
> There may be a simple explanation
> (someone else already pointed out, that you need to use "...";
> I expect, you did as otherwise, you would get a "KeyError"):
Yeah, sorry my example code was wrong.
> There may be an object named "n" somewhere in the
> acquisition context. An object that does not define
> an "__add__" method.
>
> As you probably know (or can reread in the documentation),
> "REQUEST" has quite a low priority for lookups
> (in fact, it is at the bottom of the acquisition context).
> It is therefore easy to have a REQUEST definition overridden.
> Use "REQUEST['n']+1" instead of "n+1".
This fixed the problem, thanks. I'm only just getting back into Zope,
and I suppose acquisition hadda bite me at least once :)
Richard
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