On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:04:53AM -0800, Titus Brown wrote: > As it turns out -- maybe not ;). > > The only time a real 'request' object is available is when the session is > being created as a direct result of a Web access. This means that unless > you use Object Magic (tm) to create the object from a database *without* > going through the __init__ function, you're stuck with creating a fake > 'request' object that mimics the get_environ function. You munched the part where I suggested to use a new-style class and __new__. That is a natural mechanism to unserialize an object, IMO. Neil