No reaction to including a four line big productivity booster into web2py! If not an enhanced BEAUTIFY class why not another BEAUTIFY class such as BEAUTIFY2?
Surely at least an answer is merited, even if the answer is no! Below is a copy of http://www.web2pyslices.com/main/slices/take_slice/58 Title: BEAUTIFY enhanced Notes: How to break the alphabetic ordering dependence of BEAUTIFY and use multiple word keys with the dict method The problem A view page such as {{extend 'layout.html'}} <br /> {{=BEAUTIFY(response._vars)}} will produce a nice recursively traversed presentation showing keys and values of the response._vars dictionary in a table. If a key value points to an inner dictionary, list ot tuple then the value is recursed and shown as a table within a table. Very convenient. There are two problems 1. The order of presentation of keys at a particular dictionary recursion level is alphabetical. 2. Using the dict method is common in web2py to construct a dictionary. However with this method keys cannot have spaces in them and so the key will not appear as words when displayed in a view The solution The last four lines of the six lines below are an addition to class BEAUTIFY in file gluon\html.py and provides a solution. if type(value) == types.LambdaType: continue if isinstance(key, str): # a key must be a string type if key[1]=='_': # 'a_bcde_fghi' means 'bcde_fghi' is the key to be shown key=key[2:] # remove 'a_' from 'a_bcde_fghi' key=' '.join([x.capitalize() for x in key.split('_')]) # Converts remaining 'bcde_fghi' to 'Bcde Fghi' The code examines the second character of the key. If this character is '_' it removes the first two characters. This means the single characters A-Z, a-z and 0-9 are available to arbitrarily and conveniently reorder presentation independent of alphabetic order, as the first letter and the underscore following will be removed. If the second character is '_', then the last line the of code replaces remaining underscores with a space and capitalizes the result. Examples using view above return dict(cde_fgh='world', ijk_lmn='hello') cde_fgh: world ijk_lmn: hello return dict(b_cde_fgh='world', a_ijk_lmn='hello') Ijk Lmn: hello Cde Fgh: world You can see an example of this technique in action at http://www.zgus.com/zgus/products/category_item/1 The view page is the three line view page above. The last statement of the category_item function is return stripped_dict(dict( a_product_category=item.title, b_custom=item.custom, d_products= _product_list, e_category_documentation=_document_list, f_video=_video_list, g_about=item.about, )) As for the quality of the linked videos in the page, I received a polite complaint from a senior executive of a well known corporation about their poor quality! Their main purpose is to demonstrate I work on further developing real product which is not yet ready to be marketed! John Heenan On Feb 16, 12:52 pm, John Heenan <[email protected]> wrote: > I have just put up a new web2slice that includes a manual patch for > the BEAUTIFY class. The entry is > athttp://www.web2pyslices.com/main/slices/take_slice/58 > > I would like to propose that the patch or an equivalent one makes it > way into the web2py trunk. If it does then I can change the web2py > slice to be an effective and practical example of the use of the > enhancement. > > Thanks > > John Heenan -- 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.
