[Zope] dtml-var "fmt" question

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jens Vagelpohl [mailto:tommymi@concentric.net]
> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 12:48 PM
> To: Rob Page
> Cc: 'zope@zope.org'
> Subject: RE: [Zope] dtml-var "fmt" question
> 
> 
> thanks for the pointer, rob. 
> 
> so it looks like i will have to write python, eh? :) 

I don't think so.  I think you can do what you want with the fmt= var
attirbute and C style format strings.

> my professor had 
> told me that i would have to learn python in order to use Zope, and i 
> told him "well... we'll see about that..."

Of course, learning Python for any reason is a *good* thing (or no
reason at all).

> 
> of course i had already bought the beginners' python book by o'reilly 
> a few days before that ;)

And it's a good book too!

-Michel