On 06 August 2002, Andreas Kostyrka said:
> > (Oh yeah: cvs -d :pserver:anon@cvs.mems-exchange.org:/home/cvs co quixote)
> password?

There isn't one -- just hit enter.  I'll go put some instructions on the
web site.

> Well, it's not that obvious. Especially request is a magic opaque object
> that is wrongly documented. (for example it is NOT a mapping)

Ooh, you're right, the docstring for HTTPRequest is waaaaaay out of
date.  I'll fix that too -- thanks!

> And it does not provide any support for dealing with CGI parameters.
> After having written twice
>
> def method(self,request):
>       scaling=int(request.form.get("scaling","1"))
>       angle=int(request.form.get("angle","0"))

What if int() raises ValueError because the user entered "foo" instead
of "42"?

Anyways, you should look at the Quixote form library -- see form/form.py
for docs (and code), and demo/forms.ptl for example code.  I think it
makes life easier when generating, rendering, and processing HTML forms.

        Greg