[Zope-dev] Re: TALES idea: tuple unpacking

[Chris Withers]

Shane Hathaway wrote:
> Literally, "user_files/int:0" says "get item 0 of user_files, 
> interpreting '0' as an integer".  Technically, this could be interpreted 
> as "get the attribute named 0 or item 0", but an attribute name must be 
> a string, so implicitly it really just says "get item 0".
> 
> We've come up with a number of generally useful prefixes, BTW.  Off the 
> top of my head:
> 
> call:   -- Call a named method
> int:    -- Look up an item by index
> format: -- Perform simple formatting operations like "format:money"
> zope:   -- Access a big Zope API

This rocks from my perspective :-)

Chris