Oh what a twisted thread we weave....

[Tom Anderson]

On Sat, 28 Oct 2005, GregM wrote:

> ST_zeroMatch = 'You found 0 products'
> ST_zeroMatch2 = 'There are no products matching your selection'
>
> # why does this always drop through even though the If should be true.
> 		if (ST_zeroMatch or ST_zeroMatch2) in self.webpg:

This code - i do not think it means what you think it means. Specifically, 
it doesn't mean "is either of ST_zeroMatch or ST_zeroMatch2 in 
self.webpg"; what it means is "apply the 'or' opereator to ST_zeroMatch 
and ST_zeroMatch2, then check if the result is in self.webpg". The result 
of applying the or operator to two nonempty strings is the left-hand 
string; your code is thus equivalent to

if ST_zeroMatch in self.webpg:

Which will work in cases where your page says 'You found 0 products', but 
not in cases where it says 'There are no products matching your 
selection'.

What you want is:

if (ST_zeroMatch in self.webpg) or (ST_zeroMatch2 in self.webpg):

Or something like that.

You say that you have a single-threaded version of this that works; 
presumably, you have a working version of this logic in there. Did you 
write the threaded version from scratch? Often a bad move!

tom

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