On Mar 27, 2005, at 7:23 AM, Andy Todd wrote:

> 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',)

The "confirm" literal within an [html] template is of type 'htmltext',
which the str.find() method can't handle.
You can write instead:
   if querytring.find(str("confirm")) != -1:
   ...