[Zope] Standalone ZPT and Batch

[J Cameron Cooper]

Richard Wesley wrote:

> I am busy converting a single Zope page to a Python cgi using the 
> standalone ZPT implementation from sourceforge.  Most of it seems to 
> work just fine, but I am finding that although the Batch object is 
> available and ported(?), it does not seem to work.
>
> Whenever I try to access batch/next/first with a short list, the 
> renderer complains that next.first is not defined.   The ZPT codes 
> looks like this
>
> ...
> batch python:modules['ZUtils'].Batch(...);
> next batch/next
> ...
>
> <a tal:condition="next"
>
> Looking at Batch.py, it appears that Batch.next is actually a 
> LazyNextBatch object, which only defines the Zope-specific __of__ 
> operator.  This makes sense, but I am rather surprised that standalone 
> ZTP does not handle this correctly in Expressions.py
>
> Anyone have any suggestions about how to fix this?

You should probably pose the question to the folks responsible for that 
project. It may be a known problem, or they might know that they haven't 
gotten around to it yet. Or that it's impossible outside the context of 
Zope. I've never looked at it, so I can't say either way.

            --jcc