This idea sounds the most promising to me. get_namespace_stack() is a method of the publisher. How do I get ahold of the publisher so that I can call this method? dustin On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 04:38:39 -0700, Oscar Ramblawrote: > On Sunday 19 September 2004 22:01, Dustin Lee wrote: > > > > http://some.url.com/myapp.cgi/animal/x123/assessment/234/ > > > The question is > > when I instantiate the assessment (234) is there an easy way to > > determine what the animal id was? the object referred to by 234 is an > > AssessmentUI object in the assessment_ui module. > > > > > Seems like this is something that folks must do all the time, or maybe > > I'm just thinking about this is a weird way. > > > > Also, namespace_stack is a quixote build-in that keeps track of the > modules/objects traversed. > > You'll see there is not a general solution for you question. Mostly because > there are also different possible internal representations of what assessment > is. > > -Oscar Rambla > -- Dustin Lee qhfgva=rot13(dustin)