What I like to do is add *args and **kwargs to controller methods, precisely for that reason.
e.g. def index(self, expected_var, ..., *args, **kwargs): That way I catch any extra argument passed in and I can either ignore them or present the error in a friendlier way. Not sure if there are better ways to do it though. Hope this helps. Krys Mike Harding wrote: >The quickstart project template has the interesting feature, inherited, I >guess, from CherryPy... > >If you access 'http://localhost:8080/?var=5' you get the ugly display: > >Traceback (most recent call last): >File "*/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/CherryPy- >2.1.0_betadev-py2.4.egg/cherrypy/*_cphttptools.py", line 276, in run >main() >File "*/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/CherryPy- >2.1.0_betadev-py2.4.egg/cherrypy/*_cphttptools.py", line 498, in main >body = page_handler(*args, **cherrypy.request.paramMap) >File >"/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/TurboGears-0.5.1-py2.4.egg/turbogears/controllers.py", >line 93, in newfunc >output = func(self, *args, **kw) >TypeError: index() got an unexpected keyword argument 'var' > >Would it make sense to either have the root object take a dictionary arg, or >explaing how to have the system catch errors such as these so they don't go >to the screen? > > >
