[Zope-dev] TALES idea: tuple unpacking

[Jean Jordaan]

> Say a method listFilesByUser returns a list of (user, [files]) it'd be nice to 
> be able to::
> 
>    tal:repeat="user,files here/listFilesByUser"
> 
> or similar. Currently we would have to use a python: expression to manually 
> unpack the tuple. Kinda yucky.

yeah, or make listFilesByUser return {'username': user, 'files': files} and::

  <tal:x repeat="user_dict here/listFilesByUser">
    <tal:y define="user  user_dict/username;
                   files user_dict/files" />
  </tal:x>

also not ideal. I think the format in your example works well.

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Jean Jordaan
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