On Mar 31, 2011, at 9:27 AM, David J. wrote: > > It is optional; read the router.py docs. > > Jonathan mentioned that in his post.
VP is suggesting the opposite default, and I think perhaps he's right. It causes too much confusion. > > > > On 3/31/11 12:24 PM, VP wrote: >> Unless I misunderstand the issue at hand here, seriously, I do not >> think this is web2py's scope to do this automatic mapping hyphens or >> dashes to underscores. >> >> Hyphen/dash is a minus sign. You can't define a Python variable or >> function that has a hyphen/dash. It's syntactically incorrect. I do >> not think it's web2py's place to automatically fix this syntactical >> error. (For one thing, it seems the side effect of this is that >> underscores are automatically converted to hyphens, which is clearly >> undesirable). >> >> Perhaps, the best thing is letting people turn on this mapping >> optionally. >> >> >> >> On Mar 31, 9:31 am, Ross Peoples<[email protected]> wrote: >>> web2py will automatically convert dashes to underscores for the function >>> names, so: >>> >>> getting-started >>> >>> will become: >>> >>> def getting_started(): >>> return dict() >
