>
> As I pass it as vars via LOAD:
>
> {{=LOAD('default',
> 'send_suggestion',
> vars={ 'c':request.controller,
> 'f':request.function,
> 'args':request.args,
> 'vars':request.vars},
> ajax_trap=True)}}
>
> does it mean that request.vars has not been serialized/deserialized
> correctly ?
>
When you pass a dict as a URL var, the dict is converted to a string
representation of the dict and then urlencoded. When it is decoded, you
have a string representation of the dict (equivalent to repr(request.vars)
in this case), not the dict itself (actually, I think it's a list with the
string representation of the dict as its sole element). To get the dict
back, you can safely eval it using ast.literal_eval:
import ast
_vars = ast.literal_eval(request.vars.vars[0]) if request.vars.vars else {}
Anthony
