On Wednesday, January 4, 2012 4:15:51 PM UTC-5, Yarin wrote: > > Thanks guys, but for the record I know missing keys on request.vars > wasn't returning None in 1.99.2, and when I upgraded it broke my code. > Does anyone have an explanation? >
>From Jonathan: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/web2py/qe4v5TmlBHs/I9dvPB8uEDYJ I guess the behavior you were relying on was considered a bug -- as Bruno pointed out, the documentation says: "Unlike a dictionary, if an attribute (or key) does not exist, it does not raise an exception. Instead, it returns None. " It doesn't indicate that there should be any difference between modes of access (i.e., .key vs. ['key']), so the change was made for consistency. In your code, you could just do: sort = request.vars.sort or 'created' which I think would be an improvement in either case. Anthony
