[mod_python] Import a module into a variable value

2006/12/5, Mike Looijmans <nlv11281 at natlab.research.philips.com>:
> Why not just re-read the file on every request?
>
> The caching you are doing now is also done by the operating system. You won't be really reading from
> disk when you do a read.

I guess you are right. At least if the file is read frequently enough
to be kept in the cache by the OS.

> Note that using:
>
> _html = f.read()
>
> is much more efficient than reading into an array and then joining the lines together

Sure. Don't remember why I did that.

> - unless
> removing newline characters was what you had in mind (which I seriously doubt because it might mess
> up the text).

It would be a big mess.

>
> In fact, a one-liner will do:
>
> return open('/var/www/html/carconsumption.com/index.html', 'r').read() % _d
>

I did that. Just placed the open in a function to not clutter the return line:

   return index_html() % _d

Thanks.

> --
> Mike Looijmans
> Philips Natlab / Topic Automation
>
>
> Clodoaldo wrote:
> > I'm doing a very light templating in a publisher program.
> >
> > There is a html template read from the index.html file in which
> > '%(variable)s' are replaced.
> >
> > This code reads the template from the file:
> >
> > f = open('/var/www/html/carconsumption.com/index.html', 'r')
> > _html = ''.join(f.readlines())
> > f.close()
> >
> > And then inside index() at return time the usual substitution:
> >
> >   return C._html % _d
> >
> > Editing a file with the extension .html is nice with editors with html
> > syntax highlighting, completion and other things. The only problem
> > with this approach is that the file index.html is not reloaded when
> > changed.
> >
> > I know i could just use a generic handler with PSP as templating. But
> > the publisher is so convenient and as the new importer in 3.3 is full
> > of tricks like importing modules with any extension i would like to
> > know if there is some way to import a whole module into a variable
> > value preventing it from being interpreted as python code.
> >
> > If the above is nonsense what would be a better approach for
> > templating within publisher programs or just to solve the not
> > reloadable index.html file?
> >
> > Regards,
>
>

-- 
Clodoaldo Pinto Neto