I am curious. I don't think people can define Python functions (controllers) that have hyphens. Right? If their controllers can not have hyphens, then why would web2py have to worry about mapping hyphens to underscores in function names(which appears to have undesirable side effects)?
On Mar 31, 10:06 am, Jonathan Lundell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 30, 2011, at 11:35 PM, pbreit wrote: > > > Perhaps at least it can be fixed to accept hyphens in the app name? The > > only problem is with function names, correct? > > I'm pretty sure that controller names are a problem, too, and I'm not certain > about application names. > > Function names are the most obvious problem, because they're directly used as > Python identifiers. But application and controller names get used in a > variety of ways (not just as file names), so I've been wary of allowing them. > > The new router allows more than the old system did (even without the regex > router enabled). > > If you want to experiment with it, in the new router you can redefine the > parameter acfe_match, which is used to validate a/c/f. By default it's > r'\w+$'; try setting it to r'[\w\-]+$' instead, and be sure to set > map_hyphen=False. > > If you do experiment, be sure to try compiling an app and running the > compiled version.
