[Zope] How to make a ZPT-based form that calls itself?

Paul Winkler pw_lists at slinkp.com
Wed May 11 19:31:56 EDT 2005


On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 04:51:33PM -0500, J Cameron Cooper wrote:
> Look at your Python. It understands a dot as an attribute access. That's 
> why Zope historically avoids dotted object names. Witness 'index_html'.
> 
> You may use dictionary lookup:
> 
>  context['deltest.htm']()
> 
> or getattr.

But note that they're not semantically equivalent.
getattr(foo, 'bar')  might use acquisition to find 'bar'.
foo['bar'] does not use acquisition, it only looks directly in foo.

I don't like this difference, but, whatever.

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Paul Winkler
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