Thanks for your response. That is a clean solution:
2 questions: - How to generate the "document as a string" I mean, by using the HTML generation (view + controller) engine in web2py? - How to execute a controller from python shell (not as web service)? On Sep 11, 12:54 pm, Jonathan Lundell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 11, 2009, at 10:57 AM, V. K wrote: > > > > > I was looking to use the python shell to generate the final HTML that > > is rendered in a browser: > > > Let me explain: > > > Normally in web2py: > > the URL "http://www.misite.com/app/default/index"; maps to a python > > function and uses an appropriate view file to return HTML/XML/JSON... > > data. > > > I wanted to use the python shell to do all the processing to generate > > the final data. > > > For example: > > >>>> python_function(app.default.index) should return the processed > >>>> HTML/XML/JSON exactly what the URL > > > I am sure that the web2py python web-server uses some python functions > > internally. Is it possible to use those explicitly? > > You just want the controller to generate the entire document that gets > returned? If so, how about returning a dict whose only member contains > that document as a string, with a trivial view that just outputs that > string? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" 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/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
