Thanks very much for the clarification. Lennart Regebro wrote:
On 5/24/05, Hong Yuan <hongyuan@homemaster.cn> wrote:
I happened to find that obj.restrictedTraverse(['']) returns the application object, instead of the object itself. This is quite unexpected, as both obj.restrictedTraverse('') and obj.restrictedTraverse([]) returns the object itself.
Is this a bug or a feature?
RestrictedTraverse on a list will assume it is a path of ids. restrictedTraverse on a string will assume it is a URL.
A path of ids that starts with '' is a absolute path, just like a URL that starts with '/'. So, the path list [''] means the root/application object, just like '/' means the root/application object.
However [] is an empty path, and is therefore the same as the URL ''.
So, the above behaviour is expected and as defined.
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