Python Code blocks did the trick! Thanks for the help and suggestions everyone.
-C On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Corey Kovacs <[email protected]>wrote: > Yeah, I had a type, temp should have been uspan. it's not meant to be > "coorrect" tho, just give an idea of what I am after. Again, thanks for the > suggestions. As always, they are appreciated. > > -C > > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Corey Kovacs <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Thanks Uwe and Diez, I'll give these suggestions a go.. >> >> -C >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Diez B. Roggisch <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Corey Kovacs schrieb: >>> > I am trying create a representation of a computer rack using genshi in >>> > TG2. What I am trying to do is >>> > loop through the rack elevations and when I find an elevation where a >>> > host belongs, I want to add some >>> > data to show a host is at that spot. Thats the easy part. I also want >>> to >>> > modify the rowspan for the <td> >>> > element so that the host <td> spans the appropriate number of >>> elevations >>> > to show the vertical size of >>> > the machine. >>> > >>> > I've done this using PHP but have long since decided to rewrite my >>> > project in Python/TG. Now I am >>> > finding that i am somewhat limited in what i can achieve with immutable >>> > variables. >>> > >>> > Basically, I need this.. >>> > >>> > temp=0 >>> > print "<TABLE>" >>> > print "<TR><TD>row</TD><TD>rack.rackid</TD><TD>row</TD></TR>" >>> > for(row=1; row<43; row++) >>> > for host in hostlist: >>> > if host.elevation == row: >>> > uspan = host.height-1 >>> > print "<TR><TD>row</TD><TD >>> > rowspan=uspan>host.hostname</TD><TD>row</TD></TR>" >>> > while temp > 0 : >>> > row++ >>> > print "<TR><TD>row</TD><TD>row</TD></TR>" >>> > uspan-- >>> > else >>> > print "<TR><TD>row</TD><TD></TD><TD>row</TD></TR>" >>> > >>> > print "<TR><TD>row</TD><TD>PDU</TD><TD>row</TD></TR>" >>> > print "<TR><TD>row</TD><TD>PDU</TD><TD>row</TD></TR>" >>> > >>> > >>> > The above (really ugly) pseudo-code mashup tries to explain it >>> >>> I guess there is an error in there, the temp-variable is never set. But >>> I guess you could ditch it & use >>> >>> while uspan: >>> ... >>> >>> >>> Now in genshi, one does this via pre-computation of the rowlist. >>> Essentially, you extract your logic to create a data-structure that fits >>> your needs. You can do this in your controller (I don't see anything >>> wrong with that, the MVC-pattern in webapps goes only so far), or inside >>> a <?python-block. >>> >>> rows = [None] * 43 >>> for host in hostlist: >>> host_rows = [Bunch()] * host.height >>> for row in host_rows: >>> row.rowspan = None >>> row.host = host # for template reference >>> host_rows[0].rowspan = host.heighth - 1 >>> rows[host.elevation:host.elevation + host.height] = host_rows >>> >>> >>> Then in the template, you can do this: >>> >>> <table> >>> <py:c py:strip="True" py:for="row in rows"> >>> <tr py:if="not row">normal row without host</tr> >>> <tr py:if="row and row.rowspan"><!-- first row with host --> >>> </tr> >>> <tr py:if="row and not row.rowspan"><!-- following host-rows --> >>> </tr> >>> </py:c> >>> </table> >>> >>> >>> >>> Diez >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
