[mod_python] Using Templates

Hi Ron,

I'll have some additional comments later, but I just noticed that you 
have a name collision in your month.tmpl. Whatever loadCalendar.strDate 
is will override the value of strDate you set in the line tmpl.run(vars 
= {'strDate': strDate})


----------------loadCalendar/setStrDate----------------
def setStrDate(req):
	if not hasattr(req, 'session'):
		session = initSession(req)
		strDate = ""
	else:
		session = Session.Session(req)
		strDate = getSessionVariable(session, 'currDate')
	req.content_type = 'text/html'
	tmpl = psp.PSP(req, filename='Month.tmpl')
	tmpl.run(vars = {'strDate': strDate})
                           ^^^^^^^
	return ""



------------------------Month.tmpl-------------------------
<%
from mod_python import apache, psp
from loadCalendar import loadMonth, strDate
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^
                                     What's this?

%>

<%=loadPan()%>
<%=loadMonth(req, =strDate)%>


Jim

ron banks wrote:
> Jim,
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply. I must yield to pretty much anyone on how it
> should be done due to previously mentioned newbie status but I have
> tried putting the code all in one block and I don't think that is right.
> It doesn't error but it just hangs. I'm probably missing the concept
> here but the <%=statement%> is like php and is just a placeholder. I get
> that. All I want to do is get the variable strDate to the loadMonth
> function with the new date string (e.g., "2007,7,11"). What method would
> be best for doing that? Here is the complete traceback from the original
> code:
> 
> Mod_python error: "PythonHandler mod_python.psp"
> 
> ------------------Traceback------------------
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> 
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mod_python/apache.py", line 299, in HandlerDispatch
>     result = object(req)
> 
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mod_python/psp.py", line 302, in handler
>     p.run()
> 
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mod_python/psp.py", line 213, in run
>     exec code in global_scope
> 
>   File "/var/www/html/TaskMaster/Month.psp", line 4, in ?
>     %>
> 
>   File "/var/www/html/loadCalendar.py", line 56, in setStrDate
>     tmpl = psp.PSP(req, filename='Month.tmpl')
> 
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mod_python/psp.py", line 111, in __init__
>     self.load_from_file()
> 
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/mod_python/psp.py", line 179, in load_from_file
>     code = compile(source, filename, "exec")
> 
>   File "/var/www/html/TaskMaster/Month.tmpl", line 22
> 
>     req.write("""
> 
> 
> """,0); req.write(str(loadPan()),0); req.write("""
> """,0); req.write(str(loadMonth(req, =strDate)),0); req.write("""
> ------------------end------------------
> 
> It might be that I can't or shouldn't use templates for what I am trying to accomplish.
> Prior to testing templates I pretty much had figured out everything else and probably
> just need advise on doing it another way. I have the session being updated with the user
> selected date through ajax. What I need is a method to download the same page again with
> the loadMonth function using the new date. I was hoping to use a template where I could
> set the strDate variable and load the page. Obviously, I'm doing that wrong.
> 
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