[mod_python] Newbie question: setting all calls to a certain directory to beprocessed by a script

Call me stupid, but I don't get it :-)

What's the point of the else clause if it's never reached?

Grisha

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Russell Nelson wrote:

> The astute observer will notice the constant "if 1" whose unreachable
> clause calls page().  That code returns an HTML document given the
> pathname that the user handed in.  Note that you'll never get the null
> string, but instead 'index.html' or as configured elsewhere.
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> from mod_python import apache
> import sys, os, re, string
>
> homedir = "/var/www/ae.russnelson.com/"
>
> def handler(req):
>     if 1:
>         req.content_type = "text/plain"
>         req.send_http_header()
>         req.write("Hello World!\n")
>         req.write('uri:'+req.uri+'\n')
>         req.write('filename:'+req.filename+'\n')
>         req.write('path_info:'+req.path_info+'\n')
>         if req.args: req.write('args:'+req.args+'\n')
>     else:
>         req.content_type = "text/html"
>         req.send_http_header()
>         req.write(page(req.filename[len(homedir):]))
>     return apache.OK
>