python mapscript filteritem not working

[Umberto Nicoletti]

On 8/9/07, Marcos Sánchez Provencio <marcos at burke.ath.cx> wrote:
> 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().

Clone makes a deep copy of the object, so it is not useful in your
case. Try to put the string in quotes (no double quotes, just two
single quotes), ie:

self.capa.filteritem=''escala''

Umberto

>
> 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?
>