TurboGears /.-ed, >new == True< or >new == "True"<

Andy Leszczynski leszczynscyATnospam.yahoo.com.nospam
Thu Oct 13 01:25:54 EDT 2005


Sybren Stuvel wrote:
> Andy Leszczynski enlightened us with:
> 
>>should not it be:
>>
>>2 def save(self, pagename, data, submit, new):
>>3 hub.begin()
>>4 if new == True:
>>5     page = Page(pagename=pagename, data=data)
>>6 else:
>>7     page = Page.byPagename(pagename)
>>8     page.data = data
>>
>>instead of:
>>
>>4 if new == "True":
> 
> 
> No it should not. The values passed to the function are the strings
> passed by the GET request, hence all strings. There are methods of
> dealing with this - read the rest of the documentation.
> 
> Sybren

So how does it correspond to other piece of the code:

2	def notfound(self, pagename):
3	    return dict(pagename=pagename, data="", new=True)

new is a boolean here?

A.



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