wow im an idiot.. thanks
On Monday, August 20, 2012 5:27:59 PM UTC-4, ian douglas wrote:
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> On 08/20/2012 02:17 PM, Yarin wrote:
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> def index():
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> global my_var
> my_var = "something"
> content = '''<html><body><h1>My Page</h1><p>
> {{=my_var}}
> {{=request.raw_args}}
> </body></html>'''
>
> output = render(content,context=dict(n=5))
> return output
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>
> but this won't work- it gives an error:
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>> <type 'exceptions.NameError'> name 'my_var' is not defined
>
>
> Questions:
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> - How do I create variables in the controller that can then be
> referenced in the rendered view?
> - Can I access global vars like request/response in the rendered view?
> - what does the context dictionary do?
>
> (I tried but couldn't make sense of the render function in template.py.
> I'm clueless to the scoping consequences of this stuff...)
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> I'm still pretty new to web2py, but my experience so far is that anything
> in the view has to be in the context dictionary. Perhaps change the
> context=dict() to this (untested)?
>
> output = render(content,context=dict(n=5, my_var=my_var))
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>
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