Re: NameError when generating Python code

Hi,

Sounds good that I'm not the only one with this problem :)

I think I know enough about git to test out the patch. Which branch or tag
should I test?

Martin

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 20:38, R. Tyler Ballance <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 06:17:51PM +0100, Martin Skøtt wrote:
> >    Hi,
> >
> >    I'm trying to use Cheetah 2.1.0.1 to generate some Python stub
> classes,
> >    but I have encountered a problem which to me looks like Cheetah is
> >    actually evaluating the code I generate. Here is the error I get:
> (Python
> >    2.6 on Win XP):
> >    Traceback (most recent call last):
> >      File "stubGen.py", line 64, in <module>
> >        print(t)
> >      File "C:\Python26\Lib\site-
> >    packages\Cheetah\Template.py", line 982, in __str__
> >        def __str__(self): return getattr(self, mainMethName)()
> >      File "_HOME_Generator_src_templates_class_tmpl.py", line 89, in
> respond
> >    NameError: global name 'BaseClass' is not defined
> >
> >    Here is the template I'm using:
> >    from BaseClass import BaseClass
> >    class $module.module(BaseClass):
> >        pass
> >
> >    If I comment out (##) the two first lines it works fine. Any
> suggestions
> >    on how to solve this?
>
> I'm impressed! You found the same issue we found tuesday ;)
>
> Anyways, the cause of the issue is the inline import support, part of
> what allows Cheetah to do things like this:
>
>        #set $myName = 'Pirate Jake'
>        Hello $myName
>
> ANd turn that into a runnable template is that the Cheetah compiler
> considers everything "lying around" not in a defined method as part of
> the "writeBody" metho, this kind of default uber-method.
>
> So with your case, what's happening is that because the imports aren't
> at the top of the fiule, the compiler/parser think that you're adding
> imports into the writeBody() method instead of the module level itself.
>
>
> The fix I think works is to ignore comments as part of the method's body
> and ignore them for the sake of imports. (this should go into the final
> v2.1.1 I'll release today)
>
> Are you familiar with Git enough to where I could convince you to beta
> test the patch this afternoon?
>
>
> Cheers
> --
> -R. Tyler Ballance
> Slide, Inc.
>

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