ansaurus

Question

Answer 1

+1 A:

Did I understand you correctly that all you want is read the content from a file? If you want to read the complete content use something like this (Python >= 2.5):

from __future__ import with_statement

with open(my_file_name, 'r') as fp:
    content = fp.read()

Note: The from __future__ line has to be the first line in your .py file (or right after the content encoding specification that can be placed in the first line)

Or the old approach:

fp = open(my_file_name, 'r')
try:
    content = fp.read()
finally:
    fp.close()

If your file contains non-ascii characters, you should also take a look at the codecs page :-)

Then, based on your example, the last section could look like this:

from __future__ import with_statement

@route(':filename')
def static_file(filename):    
    mylookup = TemplateLookup(directories=['html'])
    mytemplate = mylookup.get_template('hello/index.html')
    content = ''
    with open('name.html', 'r') as fp:
        content = fp.read()
    return mytemplate.render(name=content)

You can find more details about the file object in the official documentation :-)

There is also a shortcut version:

content = open('name.html').read()

But I personally prefer the long version with the explicit closing :-)

Horst Gutmann 2010-08-19 12:29:08

Answer 2

+2 A:

return mytemplate.render(name=open(<path-to-file>).read())

katrielalex 2010-08-19 12:30:14

Answer 3

+1 A:

Thanks for the replies.
The idea is to use the mako framework since it does things like cache and check if the file has been updated...

this code seems to eventually work:

@route(':filename')
def static_file(filename):    
    mylookup = TemplateLookup(directories=['.'])
    mytemplate = mylookup.get_template('index.html')
    temp = mylookup.get_template('name.html').render()
    return mytemplate.render(name=temp)

Thanks again.

cschicka 2010-08-19 13:46:02

ansaurus

tags:

views:

answers:

Loading mako templates from files

related questions