I'm presuming that I'm missing something really straight forward here,
but I'm having some problems with strings.

In my PTL module I've got the following method;

     def delete [html] (self, request)
         '     
Delete Page
\n'
         queryString = str(request.get_environ('QUERY_STRING'))
         '
queryString is %s
\n' % queryString
         # If the queryString includes 'confirm=yes' then delete the page,
         if queryString.find("confirm") != -1:
             '
Really delete this page?\n'

But when I run it I get an error raised by the 'if' statement;

TypeError: expected a character buffer object
       args = ('expected a character buffer object',)

I can't replicate this in an interactive session of course. Changing the
method type from [html] to [plain] works just fine, but according to the
  documentation [1] it's better to use the former and I'm trying to be
good here.

I thought by explicitly converting the results of get_environ to a
string I would solve the problem but this isn't the case. The only thing
I've tried that works is changing the method type.

Changing the function to;

     def delete [html] (self, request):
         queryString = str(request.get_environ('QUERY_STRING'))
         '
queryString is %s
\n' % type(queryString

Gives an output of;

"""
queryString is 
"""

Which is why I thought I could use the find method on it. Any
explanation of what I'm missing would be much appreciated.

[1] http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/quixote/doc/PTL.html

Regards,
Andy
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