TurboGears /.-ed, >new == True< or >new == "True"<

[Sybren Stuvel]

Andy Leszczynski enlightened us with:
> should not it be:
>
> 2 def save(self, pagename, data, submit, new):
> 3 hub.begin()
> 4 if new == True:
> 5     page = Page(pagename=pagename, data=data)
> 6 else:
> 7     page = Page.byPagename(pagename)
> 8     page.data = data
>
> instead of:
>
> 4 if new == "True":

No it should not. The values passed to the function are the strings
passed by the GET request, hence all strings. There are methods of
dealing with this - read the rest of the documentation.

Sybren
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