I would use the `or' approach for assignement, leaving the routes as
is:
def GET(self, name):
name = name or 'John'
Then if name is '', John will be used as python consider '' as false.
HTH
r.
On Jan 28, 7:36 pm, Aaron Swartz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > class sayName(app.page):
> > path = '/sayName/(.*)'
> > def GET(self, name = 'John'):
> > return name
>
> > If I visit this url "http://myhost/sayName/joe"; , it prints 'joe'
> > but if I simply visit "http://myhost/sayName/"; without specifying a
> > name, it ignores the default value for name, and it prints nothing.
>
> > Is this a bug, or this is how it's supposed to work?
> > Should I indicate another path in the class instead?
>
> What happens is that the (.*) picks up the value '' (since . means
> zero or more) and then passes this to GET, so GET('') is called and
> the default value is never seen. This might work; I'm not sure:
>
> path = '/sayName/(.+)?'
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