[Zope-dev] cascading dictionaries

[Michel Pelletier]

Reda Guermas wrote:
> 
> I am building a dictionary in an external method:
> 
> dict = {'user_name':'jim', 'password':'powers'}
> 
> I also add it to the request:
> container.REQUEST.set('results', dict)
> 
> The problem is that I am unable to retrieve the results dictionary on
> my dtml document. When I do: <dtml-var "REQUEST.get('results')"> I
> can see my dictionary but I am not able to get the individual values
> in the dictionary.

You're simply not doing it right:

<dtml-var "REQUEST.get('results')['user_name']">

Don't post question like this to zope-dev, use the regular zope list.
And you should read the Python tutorial:

http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/tut.html

-Michel