[Zope-dev] Re: bug in mapply.py?

[Evan Simpson]

Tim Hicks wrote:
> Given a call signature like:
> 
> def method(self, *args, **kw)
> 
> In this way, mapply.py seems to ignore the fact that I want my method to
> accept an arbitrary number of arguments (line 69).

When mapply was written, its only purpose was to map explicit method 
parameters to request variables.  There was no concept of RPC of any 
kind, so neither '*args' nor '**kwargs' had any kind of sensible 
interpretation.

So, yes, mapply does ignore what you want :-)

Unfortunately, given the way that XML-RPC and WebDAV have been piled on 
top of the initial implementation, I'm not sure how this could be fixed 
properly in Zope 2.x.

Sorry,

Evan @ 4-am