[ZPT] 1.3.0 issues with trailing '/'

Guido van Rossum guido@digicool.com
Wed, 23 May 2001 10:19:48 -0400


> I feel like I need to "know too much" about things to make this work. It 
> turns out 'here' didn't like the __getitem__ interface, so I tried 
> __getattr__. 'modules' on the other hand wants __getitem__. For what 
> it's worth (I didn't know about the survey until today) the trailing 
> slash seems better in that it would 'do the right thing' whereas python 
> requires that you know how to get things differently in different 
> contexts.

I couldn't have said it better!  Your original version looked much
better to me. :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)