David Binger wrote:
>
> 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:
>   ...
>

D'oh! Of course it've obvious now you point it out. Thanks for helping
David.

Regards,
Andy
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