Have you read the discussion on the list about this? Backward compatibility? Third-party apps? Duh. On 5 Jun 2006, at 14:18, Chris Withers wrote:

Out of interst, why not just make this change wherever empty tales expreessions have been used in the past?

It'd be clearer as to what the intention was and remove the necessity for hacky code like this...

cheers,

Chris

Florent Guillaume wrote:

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Log message for revision 68462: Merged r68461 from 2.10 branch: Empty TALES path expressions are allowed in Zope 2. http://www.zope.org/Collectors/Zope/2118 Changed: U Zope/trunk/lib/python/Products/PageTemplates/Expressions.py U Zope/trunk/lib/python/Products/PageTemplates/tests/ testExpressions.py -=- Modified: Zope/trunk/lib/python/Products/PageTemplates/Expressions.py =================================================================== --- Zope/trunk/lib/python/Products/PageTemplates/Expressions.py 2006-06-02 15:02:15 UTC (rev 68461) +++ Zope/trunk/lib/python/Products/PageTemplates/Expressions.py 2006-06-02 15:04:12 UTC (rev 68462) @@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ class ZopePathExpr(PathExpr): def __init__(self, name, expr, engine): + if not expr.strip(): + expr = 'nothing' super(ZopePathExpr, self).__init__(name, expr, engine, boboAwareZopeTraverse) Modified: Zope/trunk/lib/python/Products/PageTemplates/tests/ testExpressions.py =================================================================== --- Zope/trunk/lib/python/Products/PageTemplates/tests/ testExpressions.py 2006-06-02 15:02:15 UTC (rev 68461) +++ Zope/trunk/lib/python/Products/PageTemplates/tests/ testExpressions.py 2006-06-02 15:04:12 UTC (rev 68462) @@ -86,6 +86,15 @@ self.failUnless(isinstance(defer, DeferWrapper)) self.failUnless(isinstance(lazy, LazyWrapper)) + def test_empty_ZopePathExpr(self): + """Test empty path expressions. + """ + ec = self.ec + self.assertEquals(ec.evaluate('path:'), None) + self.assertEquals(ec.evaluate('path: '), None) + self.assertEquals(ec.evaluate(''), None) + self.assertEquals(ec.evaluate(' \n'), None) + def test_suite(): return unittest.makeSuite(ExpressionTests) _______________________________________________ Zope-Checkins maillist - Zope-Checkins@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-checkins

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