[Zope] VERY Confused!

[Toby Dickenson]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 11:43:21 -0700, Ben Ocean <zope@thewebsons.com>
wrote:

>Hi;
>I'm new to Python and Zope,

Welcome.

>*size* is a dtml method and is defined thus:
>1
>just the number one.

ok

>but I'm at a loss to understand WHY this=20
>doesn't work! I have this line in my dtml code:
><span class=3D"top"><img src=3D"images/top" width=3D<dtml-var=20
>"sizeCalc(1008,size)"> height=3D<dtml-var "sizeCalc(82,size)">></span>

Here the second parameter to sizeCalc is the dtml method itself, which
is never called. I guess you were expecting it to be the result of
calling that dtml method.

To explitly call a dtml method from python you need:

<dtml-var "sizeCalc(82,size(_.None,_)">



Toby Dickenson
tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com