cronus:/usr/lib/python/site-packages/quixote # diff -u3 /home/jsibre/downloads/Quixote-0.6/publish.py publish.py
--- /home/jsibre/downloads/Quixote-0.6/publish.py       2003-04-28 10:05:01.000000000 -0500
+++ publish.py  2003-05-27 01:23:52.000000000 -0500
@@ -442,11 +442,12 @@

         self.start_request(request)

+        self.namespace_stack = []
         # Traverse package to a (hopefully-) callable object
         object, namespace_stack = _traverse_url(self.root_namespace, path,
                                                 request,
-                                                self.config.fix_trailing_slash)
-        self.namespace_stack = namespace_stack
+                                                self.config.fix_trailing_slash,
+                                                self.namespace_stack)

         # None means no output -- traverse_url() just issued a redirect.
         if object is None:
@@ -623,7 +624,7 @@

 _slash_pat = re.compile("//*")

-def _traverse_url (root_namespace, path, request, fix_trailing_slash):
+def _traverse_url (root_namespace, path, request, fix_trailing_slash, namespace_stack=None):
     """traverse_url(root_namespace : any, path : string,
                     request : HTTPRequest, fix_trailing_slash : bool) ->
             (object : any, [object])
@@ -666,7 +667,7 @@

     # Traverse starting at the root
     object = root_namespace
-    namespace_stack = [object]
+    namespace_stack.append(object)

     # Loop over the components of the path
     for component in path_components: