Never mind. I just figured out that
from tg import request
instead of
from webob import Request as request
yields the expected result.
(might be nice to have a little mention of that in the docs though)
Uwe
On Thursday 28 May 2009, Uwe C. Schroeder wrote:
> The docs say to
>
> from webob import Request
>
> and then one can do stuff like
>
> Request.user_agent
>
> which should return a string.
> But hey, the request isn't initialized, so looking at the code of webobj:
>
> def __get__(self, obj, type=None):
> if obj is None:
> return self
> if self.key not in obj.environ:
> if self.default_factory:
> val = obj.environ[self.key] = self.default_factory()
> return val
> else:
> return self.default
> return obj.environ[self.key]
>
> I get the "obj is None" version as the result of Request.user_agent - it is
> a environ_getter object but no string.
>
> Ok, I'm not doing this in the controller, I'm doing this in helpers.py in
> the lib directory. What I need is a method to test for the user agent which
> is available in all templates (just like stdvars.py used to do in TG1). Is
> helpers.py loaded statically and not per request? If so, how can I have a
> method in every template and where do I initialize it (BTW: the TG2 docs
> don't talk about this at all, at least not that I could find it)
>
> Any pointers as usual greatly appreciated.
>
> Uwe
>
>
>
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