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diff --git a/docs/tutorials/wiki2/definingviews.rst b/docs/tutorials/wiki2/definingviews.rst index f2ac2f85f..9894bcb08 100644 --- a/docs/tutorials/wiki2/definingviews.rst +++ b/docs/tutorials/wiki2/definingviews.rst @@ -6,15 +6,12 @@ A :term:`view callable` in a :app:`Pyramid` application is typically a simple Python function that accepts a single parameter named :term:`request`. A view callable is assumed to return a :term:`response` object. -The request object passed to every view that is called as the result of a -route match has an attribute named ``matchdict`` that contains the elements -placed into the URL by the ``pattern`` of a ``route`` statement. For -instance, if a call to :meth:`pyramid.config.Configurator.add_route` in -``__init__.py`` had the pattern ``{one}/{two}``, and the URL at -``http://example.com/foo/bar`` was invoked, matching this pattern, the -``matchdict`` dictionary attached to the request passed to the view would -have a ``'one'`` key with the value ``'foo'`` and a ``'two'`` key with the -value ``'bar'``. +The request object has a dictionary as an attribute named ``matchdict``. +A ``matchdict`` maps the placeholders in the matching URL ``pattern`` to the substrings +of the :term:`request` ed URL. For instance, if a call to +:meth:`pyramid.config.Configurator.add_route` has the pattern +``{one}/{two}``, and a user visits ``http://example.com/foo/bar``, our pattern would be +matched and the ``matchdict`` would look like: ``{'one':'foo', 'two':'bar'}`` Declaring Dependencies in Our ``setup.py`` File @@ -152,10 +149,9 @@ We then generate an edit URL (because it's easier to do here than in the template), and we return a dictionary with a number of arguments. The fact that ``view_page()`` returns a dictionary (as opposed to a :term:`response` object) is a cue to :app:`Pyramid` that it should try to use a :term:`renderer` -associated with the view configuration to render a template. In our case, -the template which will be rendered will be the ``templates/view.pt`` -template, as indicated in the ``@view_config`` decorator that is applied to -``view_page()``. +associated with the view configuration to render a response. In our case, +the renderer used will be the ``templates/view.pt`` template, as indicated in +the ``@view_config`` decorator that is applied to ``view_page()``. The ``add_page`` view function ------------------------------ |