On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 04:04:13PM -0400, Kendall Clark wrote:
> What about URL bits that begin with a numeral? Or contain other
> characters that aren't legal in Py identifiers?

Can you motivate these use cases by examples?  Offhand I can't think of
cases where I want to accept '$' or '^' in a URL, or where a fixed set of
numerals would be used.  I can imagine using /thing/subthings/1, /2, /3, ...
but usually there wouldn't be a fixed limit on the integer values, and
_q_lookup is therefore quite natural.

One use I can imagine is having to exactly replicate some URL layout that
uses special characters, but that probably isn't your situation.  So what
are you trying to do?

--amk