Thanks for the info 'the.ech0' - it seems that's what I have to do. I guess what I was after was functionality like <dtml-var REQUEST> in Zope, where the entire HTTP Request object is dumped, along with environment and other variables. GET and POST are all expanded out too. With the Zope PageTemplate code that Stefan contributed, I can get that functionality back, but only by using PageTemplates ;)
It does seem to me that for something as 'busy' as POST and GET, there ought to be some functionality for inspecting what's in the object... Still on the learning curve for Django - thanks for the advice though. Cheers, Tone