looping list problem

[Peter Otten]

Jon Bowlas wrote:

> Incidentally I'm doing this in zope.

Many posters (including me) in this newsgroup don't do zope, so your best
option is to ask on a zope-related mailing list.

> I was hoping that this would loop through the elements in the list
> returned by the hiddens function comparing them with the id of the current
> value of c (bert) and if they are the same then it should ignore it and
> move onto the next one, but it doesn't seem to do anything.

> Ok, so I've adapted my script calling it a hiddens() function and included
> it inside my get_tree_html function which creates my navigation:
> 
> pub = context.get_publication()
> obj = context.aq_inner
> fpath = context.getPhysicalPath()
> 
> def hiddens():
>     attobject = context.get_attobject()
>     navstring = context.get_uclattribute(attobject, 'ucl_navhide')
>     return navstring.split(' ')
> 
> def get_tree_html(node, endobj):
>     tree = ''
>     endpath = endobj.getPhysicalPath()
>     for c in node.get_ordered_publishables():
>         if not c.is_published():
>             continue
>         bert=c.getId();
>         if bert=="index_right":
>             continue
>         if bert=="images":
>             continue
> # this is where I loop through he elements returned by my hiddens
> # function, comparing them with the value of bert

Replace these lines

>         for element in hiddens():
>               if element==bert:
>                   continue # with the next hidden element

with

          if bert in hiddens():
              continue # with the next publishable c

A 'continue' statement only affects the innermost loop, and as you don't
have any code that follows it in the for-element-loop it didn't have any
effect.

Peter