> > How can I get at a widget's template text. I first tried > TableForm.template, but it's a type, not a string. Lovely metaclass > black magic. > > I'm trying to create a slightly varied TableForm, but I want to build > on the existing template so when it's changed or updated, my variant is > updated also. Something like this: > > class MyTableForm(TableForm): > template = "<a href="">blah</a><br />" + TableForm.template > > Of course this doesn't work. Any ideas? > > Randall > >
Hi Randall, cls.template get's compiled when the class is created (yeah, lovely metaclass black magic ;), which means its a kid.Template instance once the class is loaded. Right now there's no way to do what you want (maybe digging into the Template instance's kid internals, I dunno..., however, it would be ver hackish) RFC: Maybe whe should save the original template string at cls.template and a compiled version at cls._template_c, with a property that transparently compiles the string into the private attribute every time it's set? (for faster display, etc...) Alberto
