[Zope] Re: How to pass arbitrary objects to a ZPT from Script(Python)

[Paul Winkler]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 04:25:04PM -0600, Martin Diers wrote:
> Does anyone know why it is not possible to reference a list element by number, using a simple TAL
> path statement? It would sure be nice to write a statement like this:
> 
> <span tal-define="result options/records/0 | nothing"/>

There have been related proposals. A long,
somewhat contentious, and inconclusive thread is here:
http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2003-July/thread.html#20115
warning, i posted a lot of whiney messages in that thread.

There is an experimental implementation of one of the proposals,
here:
http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/2003-July/020199.html

If nothing else, the discussion shows that it is very hard to
meet everybody's needs.

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