membership and iteration in form records

[Bertrand Croq]

When submitting a form with :record fields (eg: <input name="myrecord.thekey:record" value="value"/>) we get dict-like object for these fields.

It would be great if we could use "if 'thekey' in form.myrecord:..." and "for key in myrecord:..." as it is possible to do with dict since Python 2.4.

By now, we have to use "if 'thekey' in form.myrecord.keys():..." and "for key in myrecord.keys():..." as with Python < 2.4.

[Andreas Jung (ajung)]

Patches are welcome

[Philipp von Weitershausen (philikon)]

To give you a hint where to start: the class that's responsible for records is ZPublisher.HTTPRequest.record. A simple unit test should accompany the patch.

[Bertrand Croq (bcroq)]

Uploaded: patch

Thanks for the tips... here is a simple patch.
Sorry, no unittest, but it has been tested.

[Andreas Jung (ajung)]

A patch requires tests in order to be accepted.

[Andreas Jung (ajung)]

Changes: submitter email, edited transcript, importance (medium => low)

[Andreas Jung (ajung)]

Original followup by tseaver

"""

Applied to 2.9 branch:

 http://svn.zope.org/Zope/branches/2.9/?rev=79911&view=rev

2.10 branch:

 http://svn.zope.org/Zope/branches/2.10/?rev=79912&view=rev

and the trunk:

 http://svn.zope.org/Zope/trunk/?rev=79930&view=rev
"""