Thank you very much, that works great!  I was messing with it in DTML
and it got kind of nasty.

Mike

On Monday 16 December 2002 04:04 pm, Tino Wildenhain wrote:
>  Hi Mike,
> 
>  --On Montag, 16. Dezember 2002 15:32 -0700 Mike Doanh Tran
> 
>  <mtran@[...].com> wrote:
>  > How do i count the value of a variable inside of <dtml-in>
>  > I want to count not just the occurence of the  variable but the
>  > value of that variable also. For Example i have a variable name "weight":
>  >
>  > <dtml-in getQuery>
>  >   <dtml-var count-weight>
>  > </dtml-in getQuery>
>  >
>  > <dtml-var count-weight> will give me a total number of occurence for the
>  > variable weight.  What i want to do is count the value of weight.
>  >
>  > if weight=1 then count how many 1 there are
>  > if weight=2 then count how many 2 there are
>  > and so on ....
> 
>  While it is possible in DTML, I show you a solution with lesser pain:
>  Add a python script and use a construct like that:
> 
>  weights={}
>  for line in context.getQuery():
>      weights[line.weight]=weights.get(line.weight,0)+1
> 
>  return weights
> 
> 
>  The script will start with an empty dictionary (hash, associative array)
>  and for any value of weight, it looks up the current value with this
>  kay in the dictionary, using 0 as default if none is found and adds 1
>  to it. In the result you have a dictionary which maps each value
>  for weight to the count of this value.
> 
>  HTH
>  Tino Wildenhain
> 
> 
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