I just stumbled over something that utterly baffles me and hope
someone can point out the absolutely obvious to me.
I've got a view defined in a configure.zcml that points to this
class:
class MyView(BrowserView):
def __call__(self):
self.pt = ViewPageTemplateFile(
class MyView(BrowserView):
def __call__(self):
pt = ViewPageTemplateFile('empty.pt')
data = pt()
return data
try this:
pt = ViewPageTemplateFile('empty.pt')
return pt(self)
Nope, same result:
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attri
> Well, it's called a *View*PageTemplate for a reason :-) If the
file is
> really empty and you do not need to pass any arguments to it (view,
> context, request), use a plain PageTemplateFile
No, of course it's not empty and it needs the parameters. Nor does
the view really look as trivial a
> ViewPageTemplate must be in the view's namespace, and it magically
> fishes out the view, view's context and request, and makes them
> available in the TAL namespace.
Ah, so there _IS_ heavy magic involved here. Thanks for
clarifying that, I was already doubting my sanity!
Cheers,
> ViewPageTemplate must be in the view's namespace, and it magically
> fishes out the view, view's context and request, and makes them
> available in the TAL namespace.
Ah, so there _IS_ heavy magic involved here. Thanks for
clarifying that, I was already doubting my sanity!
This is exactly t
