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Corey McGuire
coreyfro at coreyfro.com
Fri Feb 17 11:24:31 EST 2006
Ahhhh, ok. I think I miss understood how PSP worked. I was thinking one
had to process everything first, and THEN inject it in to a template. I
didn't realize it could be assembled on the fly.
OK, thanks!
> The PSP class always writes it output direct to the request object
> and it
> is not available as a string without doing some trickery. Even if using
> publisher, you can do something like:
>
> req.content_type = 'text/html'
> gallery_tmpl = psp.PSP(req, filename='gallery.tmpl')
> req.write("some HTML prologue")
> gallery_tmpl.run(vars = { 'title': title, 'caption':
> caption, 'body': body })
> req.write("some HTML epilogue")
>
> Ie., don't try and concatenate anything as strings, just write the
> bits out
> in sequence.
>
> If you really need to capture the PSP output in a string have a read of:
>
> http://www.modpython.org/pipermail/mod_python/2005-June/018231.html
>
> Graham
>
> On 17/02/2006, at 8:39 PM, Corey McGuire wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am learning python and PSP at the same time, which may be a bit of a
>> mistake, but I think I am doing well.
>>
>> I am working on moving my PHP image gallery:
>> http://www.coreyfro.com/~coreyfro/gallery.php?gallery=b-man-2003
>>
>> To python:
>> http://127.0.0.1/~coreyfro/gallery/gallery
>>
>> This is really just an exercise, but it's kinda my own version of
>> "Hello
>> World"
>>
>> I am getting hung up ok this block of code:
>>
>> cell_tmpl = psp.PSP(req, filename='cell.tmpl', vars = {'gallery':
>> gallery,
>> 'i': i, 'path': path, 'file': dirList[i], 'caption': caption})
>> body = body + cell_tmpl
>>
>> Now, the kicker is "body = body + cell_tmpl"... If I leave it like
>> that, I
>> get the following
>> http://127.0.0.1/~coreyfro/frozen/gallery1/gallery/?gallery=b-man-2003
>>
>> If I try converting it to a string (like "body = body + str
>> (cell_tmpl)")
>> something TOTALY wacky happens
>> http://127.0.0.1/~coreyfro/frozen/gallery2/gallery/?gallery=b-man-2003
>>
>> It's outputting the HTML I am trying to append to body and NOT
>> concatinating it with body.
>>
>> How do I put two and two together?
>>
>> Here's the code in full
>>
>> from mod_python import psp
>> import os
>>
>> def report(req, title, caption, body):
>> req.content_type = 'text/html'
>> gallery_tmpl = psp.PSP(req,
>> filename='gallery.tmpl')
>> gallery_tmpl.run(vars = { 'title': title, 'caption':
>> caption,
>> 'body': body })
>>
>> def index(req):
>> title = "Coreyfro's Handy, Dandy, Super-
>> duper,
>> Gallery Engine!"
>> caption = "It's free, it's fast, it's
>> incomplete!"
>> body = "You are probably here by
>> mistake<br>\
>> Please feel free to be
>> confused<br>\
>> I know I am"
>> report(req, title, caption, body)
>>
>> def gallery(req, gallery='', columns=''):
>> if columns:
>> columns = int(columns)
>> else:
>> columns = 5
>>
>> if gallery:
>> i = 0
>> column = 1
>> title = gallery
>> caption = "Click on an image below to see it's
>> full sized version"
>> path = "/home/coreyfro/public_html/gallery"
>> dirList = os.listdir(path+"/"+gallery+"/ds")
>> body = " " * 6 + "<table>\n" + " " * 8 +
>> "<tr>\n"
>>
>>
>> while i < len(dirList):
>> if column < columns:
>> column = column + 1
>> else:
>> column = 1
>> body = body + " " * 8 + "</tr>\n" + " "
>> * 8 +
>> "<tr>\n"
>>
>> cell_tmpl = psp.PSP(req,
>> filename='cell.tmpl', vars
>> = {'gallery': gallery, 'i': i, 'path': path, 'file':
>> dirList[i], 'caption': caption})
>> body = body + cell_tmpl
>> i = i + 1
>>
>>
>> body = body + " " * 8 + "</tr>\n" + " "
>> * 6 +
>> "</table>"
>> report(req, title, caption, body)
>>
>> else:
>> index(req)
>>
>> def view(req, gallery, index):
>> pass
>>
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