url mapping

[Alex K]

Hello,

How can I look for '?' in the url mapping regex. I tried to escape it
using \? but it seems web.py further escapes the \ by writting \\?.

Here is my code:

import web
urls = (
'/search\?', 'search',
)

class search:
def GET(self):
print 'hello'

if __name__ == '__main__':
web.run(urls, web.reloader)

Printing the web.py mapping gives:

('/search\\?', 'search')

Looking up for the url .../search? gives not found. Interestingly the
web.py url mapping for (search\d+, search) gives (search\\d+, search)
but looking for the url .../search23 works.

Thank you,

Alex

[Aaron Swartz]

The ? gets processed by the query argument reader (e.g. for
/search?q=5) and so isn't available when you look up URLs.

[Alex K]

Pardon my newbie but what would be the cleanest way to process url
parameters then? I can always have the regex /search(.*) for the url
/search?q=hello, but that does not seem completely satisfactory. Thank
you.

[Aaron Swartz]

If you just do web.input() you'll get back a dictionary of URL parameters.

[David Terrell]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 02:43:52PM -0000, Alex K wrote:
>
> Pardon my newbie but what would be the cleanest way to process url
> parameters then? I can always have the regex /search(.*) for the url
> /search?q=hello, but that does not seem completely satisfactory. Thank
> you.

URLS = ('/search', 'Search', ....)

class Search:
def GET(self):
i = web.input()
q = i.q;
# q = 'hello'

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