Re: #def woes

On May 20, 2009, at 4:18 PM, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:

> I /think/ this should work:
> 	#set $faa = foo

I'm not running the latest and greatest, but that doesn't work for  
me.  What *does* work for me is saying

#set $faa = self.foo

Exploiting self in such an unvarnished way seems like it might be too  
close to relying on an implementation detail, but maybe it's okay.  I  
guess Cheetah already has to guarantee not to do name-mangling or  
something so that Python code can call Cheetah methods properly...

>
> Alternatively, you can use:
> 	#set $faa = $foo
>
> If you compile the templates with autocalling disabled

Personally, I'm not a huge fan of tweaking the compile settings a lot  
for different templates.  It's just one more thing that can  
mysteriously break and take a long time to figure out.

To answer mobiledreamer's (later) question about what a wrapper  
function would look like:

## return a callable value for $name
#def F($name)
#return $getVar($name, autoCall=False)
#end def

#set $faa = $F('foo')

... assuming the self trick isn't the preferable style.  (It's  
certainly shorter!)

Mike


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