Re: [pylons-discuss] Can you help me get jinja2 to render {{thing.a}}

2018-02-13 Thread Craig Burton
Thank you Michael this did indeed fix it. Works a charm now, cheers. This does already works for me though - not sure how? Perhaps the json renderer parses the string returned by subprocess? Or jinja2 deparses it twice? In the previous example I noticed that merely putting {{r}} on a page

Re: [pylons-discuss] Can you help me get jinja2 to render {{thing.a}}

2018-02-13 Thread Michael Merickel
Craig, The subprocess is returning a json-encoded string. This is a string. You must parse it first via json.loads(subprocess.check_output(...)) if you want to use the objects it contains in your template. Similarly you said it's working with renderer="json" but it's actually not. You're

[pylons-discuss] Can you help me get jinja2 to render {{thing.a}}

2018-02-13 Thread Craig Burton
Hi there, if you can help me with this it will save what's left of my hair. I want to have a jinja2 template render with variables passed in from an external program. The views.py has this in it @view_config(route_name='stats', renderer='templates/stats.jinja2') def my_view_stats(request):