[ZPT] REQUEST argument

Richard Jones richard@bizarsoftware.com.au
Fri, 8 Jun 2001 12:55:06 +1000


On Friday 08 June 2001 12:32, Evan Simpson wrote:
> Yeeech!  You want mapply!  That's the magical apply function that the
> publishing machinery uses, and while it makes a fine impedance matcher for
> direct requests, I shudder to think of using it for intrasystem calls.
> Can't you change your Product's method, or add a new one, so that you don't
> have to pass REQUEST to it?  You can always acquire it from self, as in:
>
>   def foo(self):
>     req = self.REQUEST
>     #whatever

Woah! There's something I've never seen... learn something new every day...

How long's that been like that? I've been doing Zope for a while now, and I 
never knew I could just acquire REQUEST...


    Richard

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Richard Jones
richard@bizarsoftware.com.au
Senior Software Developer, Bizar Software (www.bizarsoftware.com.au)