[Zope-dev] Re: Zope-Dev Digest, Vol 11, Issue 7

[Willie Martin]

This is not about zope but the email itself.  The date of the email 
shows up as 12/31/1969 in my netscape mail client

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>Today's Topics:
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>   1. Arbitrary Arguments? (Marshall Powers)
>   2. Re: Arbitrary Arguments? (Stefan H. Holek)
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> Subject:
> [Zope-dev] Arbitrary Arguments?
> From:
> Marshall Powers <mpowers1 at stevens.edu>
> Date:
> Sat, 05 Jun 2004 19:16:32 -0400 (EDT)
> To:
> zope-dev at zope.org
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>Can Script(Python) objects be given arbitrary arguments, with either 
>the *name or **name style of argument passing from Python? What about 
>Product methods?
>
>I've been trying to get this to work for a while now, and my tests and 
>searches seem rather futile. If I write a Script with arguments
>
>foo, *args
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>or 
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>foo, **dict
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>and call it with a url like .../Test?foo=abc&bar=def&baz=ghi
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>and print the arguments, the foo variable has the correct value, but 
>the args/dict variable is just an empty tuple or dictionary 
>(respectively). The REQUEST variable does contain keys 'foo', 'bar', 
>and 'baz', but the args/dict variables never get them. Pretty much the 
>same thing happens when I try to do the same in a Product method.
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>So what is the deal?
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>Thank You =)
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>Marshall
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> Subject:
> Re: [Zope-dev] Arbitrary Arguments?
> From:
> "Stefan H. Holek" <stefan at epy.co.at>
> Date:
> Sun, 6 Jun 2004 14:26:58 +0200
> To:
> Marshall Powers <mpowers1 at stevens.edu>
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>
> ZPublisher can only fill in arguments it knows about, i.e. that are 
> mentioned in the script's signature.
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> Stefan
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> On Sonntag, Jun 6, 2004, at 01:16 Europe/Vienna, Marshall Powers wrote:
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>> So what is the deal?
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> The time has come to start talking about whether the emperor is as well
> dressed as we are supposed to think he is.               /Pete McBreen/
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