How do I go about checking if a request is an ajax request in a controller method in Turbogears? Further, is it possible to return a 'partial' much like in rails or symfony if the request is an ajax request. I know about the json decorator but I need a way to return a partial of a mako template (because I need to format the data and don'...
Trying to decide if I should be using mako to handle the forms in my application or not. Thanks for the input. ...
In mako template, I need to do something like that : ${'foo %(a)s bar %(b)s' % {'a': '1', 'b': '2'}} When A do that, I've this error : SyntaxException: (SyntaxError) unexpected EOF while parsing (, line 1) ("'foo %(a)s bar %(b)s' % {'a': '1', 'b': '2'") in file… Do you know a tip to fix this issue ? I need to use this syntax in t...
I have Mako taking a template from a preprocessor, and now thinks there is a 'pass' after my if statement. Here is the complete traceback Error ! SyntaxException: (SyntaxError) invalid syntax (, line 1) (u"if ${session['anonymous']}:pass") in file '/.../site/templates/shpaml/views/index.html' at line: 3 char: 1 1 <p>your anonymous stat...
I'm using python with pylons I want to display the saved data from a textarea in a mako file with new lines formatted correctly for display Is this the best way of doing it? > ${c.info['about_me'].replace("\n", "<br />") | n} ...
I'm performing all my form validation in a class, and would like to be able to get the errors from the class to the rendered html. One approach I was thinking about was to create a global variable "c" that would store all the errors and to set them from within the class, as I still want the individual methods to return false when they f...
Whenever I pass a complicated data structure to Mako, it's hard to iterate it. For example, I pass a dict of dict of list, and to access it in Mako, I have to do something like: % for item in dict1['dict2']['list']: ... %endfor I am wondering if Mako has some mechanism that could replace [] usage to access dictionary elements with simp...
How can I make my own function to use in all the Mako templates? For example, I want to create function boda(a, b) that will return a + b. (Toy example.) How can I do this? One way I know that I can do it in template itself: <% def boda(a, b): return a + b %> But I want this function to be globally available to all the templates,...
I have a Python list that I'm supplying to the template: {'error_name':'Please enter a name', 'error_email':'Please enter an email'} And would like to display: <ul> <li>Please enter a name</li> <li>Please enter an email</li> </ul> ...
Are there alternatives to manually coding the JS and HTML? Is there a Pylons-way to do this? Sample code is appreciated. ...
I'd like to display an error from my python dict "errors" only if it exists. % if c.errors.email: <div class="hint_error">${c.errors.email}</div> % endif But I keep getting the error: AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'email' What am I doing wrong? ...
I'm getting an error: GenerationException: url_for could not generate URL. Called with args: () {} from this line of a mako template: <p>Your url is ${h.url_for()}</p> Over in my helpers.py, I do have: from routes import url_for Looking at the Routes-1.12.1-py2.6.egg/routes/util.py, I seem to go wrong about line it calls _screen...
Hi guys, I'm making a website that mail users when a movie or a pc game has released. It isn't too complex - users can sign up, choose movies/music or a genre and save the settings. When the movie/music is released - it mails the user. Some other functionality too but this is the jist. Now, I've been working with Python for a bit but m...
I'd like to get the HTML elements highlighted as well as the MAKO / Python elements. Thanks. ...
whats a clean way to use different templates depending on an object class? other than buncha if statements ...
I need to know the full url for the current page from within a Mako template file in Pylons. The url will be using in an iframe contained within the page so it needs to be known when the page is being generated rather than after the page hits the server or from the environment. (Not sure if I am communicating that last bit properly) ...
In trying to add a cached section to a Mako template, I get the error listed in the above question. Adding () to the end gets rid of the error, but I see no content on my page. Any help is appreciated! <%def name="test" cached="True" cache_timeout="60" cache_type="file"> Test /%def> ...
I have a template variable, c.is_friend, that I would like to use to determine whether or not a class is applied. For example: if c.is_friend is True <a href="#" class="friend">link</a> if c.is_friend is False <a href="#">link</a> Is there some way to do this inline, like: <a href="#" ${if c.is_friend is True}class="friend"{/if}>li...
In PHP, I often use the conditional operator to add an attribute to an html element if it applies to the element in question. For example: <select name="blah"> <option value="1"<?= $blah == 1 ? ' selected="selected"' : '' ?>> One </option> <option value="2"<?= $blah == 2 ? ' selected="selected"' : '' ?>> Two ...
Is there a way to add tempate string which contains error to mako`s error trace? ...