[Zope-dev] Using DTML is too difficult

Itamar Shtull-Trauring itamars@ibm.net
Thu, 11 Nov 1999 00:28:18 +0200


Anthony Pfrunder wrote:

> Firstly, Python Methods are *really* cool!  By making them with parameters
> of [self, REQUEST] you can use them as drop-in replacements for DTML
> methods/Docs.  A lot of the disadvantages mentioned are solved in Python
> Methods.

Not to mention the ability to do some really cool stuff with ZCatalogs (find
all items beginning with the letter 'A', searching using metaphone or
soundex [I did this, if anyon'es interested], etc.)  I can't figure how to
do the <dtml-with> tag in python, though.

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Itamar - itamars@ibm.net