[Zope] newbie question about DTML IF

[Jim Washington]

Myles Byrne wrote:

>I'm trying to add a statement to my page that greets each user with a
>different statement, but i can't seem to work out how to do it.
>
>Just from reading some of the zope documentation i've tried:
>
><dtml-if expr="AUTHENTICATED_USER = bob">
>bob likes to eat fish
></dtml-if>
>
>and
>
><dtml-if expr="str(GetUser()) = bob">
>bob likes to eat fish
></dtml-if>
>
>Both of these are obviously very wrong, in the first case i thought it
>might have something to do with calling an object and trying to compare
>it to a string so in the second one i tried rendering it into a string,
>but evedently this isn't the correct way to do that. I'm new to both
>zope and python and I have a feeling I have the whole thing totally
>wrong. 
>
>Would it be better to do this in python some how and store each users
>greeting in a dtml document?
>
>any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
>
>Thanks
>
Hi, Myles

Equality-testing in python uses "==", not " =".  Easy mistake.

-- Jim Washington