Re: [Zope] Re: problem with sort_order (when seting up zwikitracker)

Simon Michael writes:

Aaah! Don't expose my dtml quackery here!

Well, one or two others reported the same problem and I'd love to understand it. How can

_.getattr(REQUEST,'sort_order','')

ever give a KeyError ? I think, this is because "ZPublisher.HTTPRequest.HTTPRequest.__getattr__" was a bit carelessly mapped to the "__getitem__" method of this class which does not have a default attribute.

When I remember right, I saw a post that this careless mapping was fixed in recent Zope versions. You may use "REQUEST.get". I would prefer this anyway because "REQUEST" is basically a mapping. Exposing its keys as attributes, too, is just a convenience. As you experienced, it was not completely implemented. Dieter