if you raise HTTP yes.
On Aug 5, 7:37 am, Niphlod <niph...@gmail.com> wrote:
> wonderful, this works, also if the workaround smells fishy ^_^
>
> regarding response.status and response.header .... are they ignored at
> all ?
>
> On 5 Ago, 13:40, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>
> > You can do
>
> > a= {'foo-':'bar','bar':'foo'}
> > HTTP(404,**a)
>
> > On Aug 5, 5:45 am, Niphlod <niph...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > ok, I digged more, and sadly I think that for problem 1) HTTP should
> > > be rewritten, or at least a new class should be extended to let more
> > > flexibility.
>
> > > Don't know if I'm boring some ultra-technical pythonist, but I'll try
> > > to explain what I managed to understand.
>
> > > this is how HTTP is defined in http.py :
>
> > > class HTTP(BaseException):
>
> > > def __init__( self, status, body='', **headers ):
> > > bla bla bla
>
> > > basically, every extra argument passed get transformed to a dict and
> > > passed along with the function.
>
> > > eg. HTTP(401,['hello'],foo='bar', bar='foo') ---> HTTP(401,
> > > ['hello'],dict(foo='bar',bar='foo')) --> __init__ done
>
> > > Now, the hard part: dict() only allow "keyword" syntax for the keys,
> > > and that will be in our case the various headers "name", while their
> > > values should be header content. Unfortunately, keywords accept
> > > letters, digit and underscore.... no dash.
>
> > > In fact:
> > > **************
> > > python> a= dict(foo='bar',bar='foo')
> > > > a= dict(foo_1='bar',bar='foo')
> > > > a= dict(foo-1='bar',bar='foo')
>
> > > SyntaxError: keyword can't be an expression
> > > **************
>
> > > So, we can't actually pass any header to HTTP() without interfering
> > > with dict() call that gets called on **headers if our keyword contains
> > > '-' . That eliminates a LOT of standard headers and make HTTP quite
> > > unuseful... I can't get the reason behind this wasn't a problem for
> > > peoples writing APIs or services....
>
> > > Another question popped: can we use response.status and
> > > response.headers ? It seems that if my controller function return
> > > anything (string, list or dict) the status is always 200 and no added
> > > headers show up in firebug....
