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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.
*Ditto Dont mod compiler variables*
On 5/20/09, Michael Higgins <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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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