[Zope] AttributeError on SESSION

[Peter Bengtsson]

On 13 Mar 2006, at 22:53, Jeff Gentry wrote:

> Okay ... I figure I've probably managed to really hose up my Zope  
> instance
> somehow but I can't figure out what it would be.  Whenever I'm  
> trying to
> access the SESSION data, I get an AttributeError on SESSION.  This  
> used to
> work for me and on another Zope instance I have it does indeed  
> work.  I
> used the session test PythonScript from The Zope Book, as follows:
>
> secs_per_day=24*60*60
> session=context.REQUEST.SESSION
> if session.has_key('last view'):
>     # The script has been viewed before, since the 'last view'
>     then=session['last view']
>     now=context.ZopeTime()
>     session['last view']=now # reset last view to now
>     return 'Seconds since last view %.2f' % ((now - then) *  
> secs_per_day)
>
> # The script hasn't been viewed before, since there's no 'last view'
> session['last view']=context.ZopeTime()
> return 'This is your first view'
>
> (well, I actually started with other code, but this causes the same
> issue).
> This works as advertised in my other instance but throws the same
> AttributeError on my first instance.  I'm assuming that I managed to
> delete and/or edit something important without realizing it.  I did  
> some
> web searches on this but didn't really turn up anything, pretty much
> everything I found assumed that SESSION was working :)
>
>
What do you get AttributeError on actually? What line?
The code above looks just fine. Are you perhaps trying to do session 
['last view'] somewhere else without checking that it first exists?

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