[albatross-users] <al-for> help!

Fri Oct 28 03:55:04 EST 2005

Do you modify locals.bookLinks or locals.foundBooks anywhere else in 
your code?  It's really hard to tell what's going on from what we're 
seeing here.  Can you post a small but complete demo that illustrates 
the problem?

John Abel wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.  I have a  
> dictionary containing paths, and a description for each.  I have  
> assigned each to locals like so:
>
>     simpleCtx.locals.foundBooks = foundBooks
>     simpleCtx.locals.bookLinks = foundBooks.keys()
>
> I've then iterated on the list with this:
>
>             <al-for iter="book" expr="bookLinks">
>                 <tr>
>                     <td style="width: 15%;">Picture Will Go There</td>
>                     <td><a href='<al-value expr="book.value()">'><al- 
> value expr="foundBooks[ book.value() ]"></a></td>
>                 </tr>
>             </al-for>
>
> The odd thing, is the list loops twice, and then exits.  If I run the  
> cgi from the command line, it processes the entire list, and displays  
> them all ( as per below ).
>
> I'm running on OSX 10.4.2, using Apple's Apache.  I've tried  
> Python2.3 and Python2.4.2, with the same results.
>
> Any pointers would be much appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
> J
>
> Content-Type: text/html
>
> <html>
>   <head>
>     <title>Library - Main Page</title>
>   </head>
>   <body>
>     <h1>Main Page</h1>
>     <hr noshade>
>     <table style="text-align: left; width: 45%; " border="1"  
> cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
>         <tbody>
>             <tr>
>                     <td style="width: 15%;">Picture Will Go There</td>
>                     <td><a href='BooksOnline/MySQL/index.html'>
>                             MySQL 4.1 Reference Manual</a>
>                     </td>
>                 </tr>
>             <tr>
>                     <td style="width: 15%;">Picture Will Go There</td>
>                     <td><a href='BooksOnline/albatross/index.html'>
>                             Albatross Manual</a>
>                     </td>
>                 </tr>
>             <tr>
>                     <td style="width: 15%;">Picture Will Go There</td>
>                     <td><a href='BooksOnline/networking/index.htm'>
>                             The Networking CD Bookshelf</a>
>                     </td>
>                 </tr>
>             <tr>
>                     <td style="width: 15%;">Picture Will Go There</td>
>                     <td><a href='BooksOnline/networking/index.html'>
>                             The Networking CD Bookshelf</a>
>                     </td>
>                 </tr>
>             <tr>
>                     <td style="width: 15%;">Picture Will Go There</td>
>                     <td><a href='BooksOnline/perl4/index.htm'>
>                             The Perl CD Bookshelf, v4.0</a>
>                     </td>
>                 </tr>
>             <tr>
>                     <td style="width: 15%;">Picture Will Go There</td>
>                     <td><a href='BooksOnline/unix3/index.htm'>
>                             The Unix CD Bookshelf, v3.0</a>
>                     </td>
>                 </tr>
>             <tr>
>                     <td style="width: 15%;">Picture Will Go There</td>
>                     <td><a href='BooksOnline/unix3/index.html'>
>                             The Unix CD Bookshelf, v3.0</a>
>                     </td>
>                 </tr>
>             </tbody>
>     </table>
> </body>
> </html>
>
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