On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 01:12:36PM -0400, Neil Schemenauer wrote:

> If you don't want to treat some names specially, you could have a
> standard pattern:
>
>     def rdf_model(...):
>     exports = {
>         'rdf-model': rdf_model,
>         'hello_world': hello_world,
>     }
>
>     def _q_lookup(request, component):
>         return exports.get(component)

Thanks, Neil, for the options.

This suggests a helpful patch, though I have no idea whether it would
break existing code or work at all. In very pseudo code:

the_type = type(_q_exports)
if the_type == types.ListType:
   
elif the_type == types.DictionaryType:
   
else: ...

That would neatly (or so it seems) solve the URI/Py-variable name
mismatch issue, though maybe I'm the only Quixote user who
systematically prefers "-" in URIs to "_", in which case it hardly
matters. :>

My hesitation to using _q_lookup to get around the naming mismatch has
more to do with my totally uninformed hunch that it's slower than
finding the same thing more "statically" (?) in a _q_exports. Well,
uninformed worries about it being "slower", and it just seems wrong,
since it's a hack to get around the name mismatch.

Best,
Kendall Clark
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