well, I didn't know about the "or" construction. Now that's
elegant ! :-)
Learning Python with web2py is a pleasure. Thank you.
On Apr 22, 4:18 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> you can do
>
> myvalue=request.vars.get('offset','somedefaultvalue')
>
> or, which I like better
>
> myvalue=request.vars.offset or 'somedefaultvalue'
>
> On 22 Apr, 02:32, desfrenes <desfre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > ok! Being influenced by other frameworks I was expecting something
> > like this:
>
> > myvalue = request.vars.offset.defaults('some default value')
>
> > where defaults() would either return the actual value or the default
> > value (as seen in ZF: $myvalue = $request->getParam('offset', 'some
> > default value');).
>
> > But I understand the gain is not worth the pain since the python "if"
> > statement is explicit and already pretty short.
>
> > On Apr 21, 10:58 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> > > This is elegant.
>
> > > On 21 Apr, 14:57, desfrenes <desfre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Hi !
>
> > > > I was looking for a way to set default values to request.vars. I use
> > > > this:
>
> > > > if request.vars.offset == None: request.vars.offset = 0
>
> > > > But maybe there is a more elegant solution ?
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