From 05f610e6ed66f8d5aca9d77ae0748feb0c8f8479 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris McDonough Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 23:26:59 -0400 Subject: document under and over params --- docs/glossary.rst | 14 ++++++++------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/glossary.rst') diff --git a/docs/glossary.rst b/docs/glossary.rst index ccb62bbc8..f0ad81ded 100644 --- a/docs/glossary.rst +++ b/docs/glossary.rst @@ -920,11 +920,13 @@ Glossary tween A bit of code that sits between the Pyramid router's main request handling function and the upstream WSGI component that uses - :app:`Pyramid` as its 'app'. A tween may be used by Pyramid framework - extensions, to provide, for example, Pyramid-specific view timing - support bookkeeping code that examines exceptions before they are - returned to the upstream WSGI application. Tweens behave a bit like - :mod:`WSGI` 'middleware' but they have the benefit of running in a + :app:`Pyramid` as its 'app'. The word "tween" is a contraction of + "between". A tween may be used by Pyramid framework extensions, to + provide, for example, Pyramid-specific view timing support, bookkeeping + code that examines exceptions before they are returned to the upstream + WSGI application, or a variety of other features. Tweens behave a bit + like :mod:`WSGI` 'middleware' but they have the benefit of running in a context in which they have access to the Pyramid :term:`application - registry` as well as the Pyramid rendering machinery. + registry` as well as the Pyramid rendering machinery. See + :ref:`registering_tweens`. -- cgit v1.2.3