Gentlebeings,
I have searched mightily for the reason why "from templates import
template" doesn't work inside a template, or in a controller even. I
haven't figured it out. I have come up with a hopelessly heavy
solution, but would appreciate being told what the simple way is.
However, I have found baseTemplates in turbogears.view.base , but it
gets initialized rediculously early in the life of a TG site. The best
I was able to come up with for overriding the list is:
#my project name is xui
#start-xui.py this all has to happen before 'import turbogears'.
import os, inspect
template_list = []
here = split(abspath(inspect.getfile(sys._getframe(0))))[0]
tplaces = ['xui/templates','xui/templates/pieces']
for place in tplaces:
for fname in os.listdir(join(here,place)):
if fname[-3:] == 'kid':
template_list.append(place.replace('/','.')+'.'+fname[:-4])
import turbogears.view.base
turbogears.view.base.baseTemplates = template_list
But that seems like a royal fustercluck to me. So I assume the
community handles this situation in a more intelligent manner.
I have pages that have a number of "slots", each of which could be
filled by a different template (widget, if you prefer) depending on the
context. Options I explored included:
a.) importing templates in the controller and then handing them off in
the return dict. I get import errors, if I'm remembering right.
b.) importing templates in another template. This led me to the above.
c.) implementing a controller method, find_templates() and doing
py:extends="c.find_templates()". This seems to work, 'cepting that my
controller can't seem to import things either.
If I need to programatically assemble templates, how should I be doing
it?
Thanks for your help,
~ethan fremen
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