python mapscript filteritem not working

[Marcos Sánchez Provencio]

It seems to be related to the fact that the connection is opened only
once. is it possible to force reopening database connections? I am going
to try using clone().

El jue, 09-08-2007 a las 11:21 +0200, Marcos Sánchez Provencio escribió:
> Good morning (in Spain). This is my first post to the list.
> 
> I have set up a django app that uses mapscript to serve maps (not using
> http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/GeoDjango whatsoever).
> 
> I have a shp file with several layers of detail (wind predictions,
> aggregated in 1x, 4x, 16x, etc.). I wanted to use filteritem and filter
> to show only the level of desired detail.
> 
> If I put 
>  FILTERITEM escala
>  FILTER "16"
> in a mapfile, it works as expected.
> 
> but
> 
>             self.capa.filteritem='escala'
>             self.capa.setFilter('16')
> does not.
> 
> Any hint why?