(Magical Zope form variables)¶
Description
Zope provides some magical HTTP POST variable names which are automatically converted to native Python primivites by ZPublisher.
Quick explanation¶
If you have HTML:
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="member.age:int"></P><BR>
Then:
request.form["member.age"]
will return integer 30 instead of string “30”.
ノート
This behavior is hard-coded to ZPublisher and cannot be extended or disabled. The recommendation is not to use it, but do the conversion of data-types yourself or use a more high-level form framework like z3c.form.
