Zope REQUEST question

[Lee Harr]

In article <OG2dnWc4TKANfAOjXTWcrg at august.net>, Terry Hancock wrote:
> Okay, this is a little tricky to explain.  This is technically a Zope 
> question, but it has to do with programming products in Python.
> 
> I'm doing a Forbidden Thing with a Zope product, which is overloading its 
> __getattr__ function.  It's a necessary Evil, though. ;-)
> 
> And actually, it works really well, as far as it goes.  It *is* a nightmare 
> to debug, which is why I've moved nearly all of the code out of this part 
> so it can be tested independently.
> 
> Anyway, it turns out, I need to be able to access the REQUEST object
> from there (I'm trying to implement an HTTP_REFERER block).
> 
> So far, I've tried:
> 
> getattr(self, 'REQUEST')
> 
> and
> 
> ObjectManager.__getattr__(self, 'REQUEST')
> 
> which should do the same thing, except the ObjectManager.__getattr__ 
> is much safer (it's not recursive).  I'm not sure why I thought that REQUEST
> would be an attribute of the object at this point, but I'm pretty sure I 
> read this somewhere and didn't just think it up out of thin air. However, 
> in this case at least, it's wrong -- these both give me attribute errors 
> (at least my object returns "not found" which is what happens when you
> raise an attribute error from inside of __getattr__ -- other errors usually
> give you the traceback you'd normally expect).
> 
> Does anyone have a better idea for how to get the REQUEST?
> 


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2)  How about self.REQUEST  ?