Jamie Heilman wrote at 2003-6-20 03:07 -0700: > ... > That magical promotion of the key & value to the other dictionary is > what tripped me up. This technique, while originally used only for > known convenience variables like URLx or BASEx and for promoting lazy > data, now applies to all variables after revision 1.75.
Zope promotes the variables from "cookies" and "form" to "other" at least since Zope 2.1.6 (the first version I worked with). I think this is for efficiency reasons. You have a single dictionary lookup instead of three ("other", "form", "cookie"). Dieter _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )