On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 12:14:24AM -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> What's the logic behind that sort of move?

I can't think of a good reason right now.  There almost certainly
was some reason for it though.

> Can I thwart it in a reasonable way or do I have to always extract
> values like so:
>
>     widgets['venue'].parse(request) or ""

That's what we do if we want to fallback to an empty string if the
user hasn't entered anything.

  Neil