[Zope-dev] Re: Pointless code in ZPublisher.HTTPRequest ?

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 09:51:26PM +0200, yuppie wrote:

I'd say the sole purpose is what you describe, but the result of the side effect is used in the next line of 'keys':

keys.update(self.other)

This small script shows that the code in 'keys' triggers the computing of URLx and BASEx:

print context.REQUEST.other.keys() context.REQUEST.keys() print context.REQUEST.other.keys() return printed

Ahh, thanks, that clears it up. Methinks this code could use an explanatory comment; I'm checking one in on svn HEAD. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com