Re: Newbie question: non-escaping backslashes before placeholders

Thanks Tyler, that works fine. It hadn't occurred to my that I could
use Python's string formatting as well as Cheetah's.

Great support. Thanks again.

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:31 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Jon Mills wrote:
>
>> Tyler,
>>
>> Thanks for your quick response, unfortunately that doesn't seem to fix
>> the problem.
>>
>> If I change my test code to:
>> from Cheetah.Template import Template
>> t = Template('#config_file    "c:\${p1}\${p2}"')
>> t.p1 = 'foo'
>> t.p2 = 'bar'
>> print t
>>
>> I get the following output:
>> #config_file    "c:${p1}${p2}"
>
>
> Ah right, I'm daft, the backslash is escaping the dollarsign.
>
> I don't think there's a really good means of dealing with this sort of
> usecase to be honest, you could work around it for now by doing
> something like:
>
>        #set cpath = "c:\\%s\\%s" % ($p1, $p2)
>        \#config_file   "$cpath"
>
> Less than ideal, I agree, but will at least get you going until I
> have time to dig into the compiler code
>
>
> Cheers,
> -R. Tyler Ballance
> --------------------------------------
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>> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:00 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Jon Mills wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I'm new to Cheetah, and new to this list,
>> >>
>> >> I've got a question that I'm sure must have been asked before, but I
>> >> can't find the answer in the documentation so I'm hoping somebody can
>> >> help.
>> >>
>> >> I'm using Cheetah 2.2.1 / Python 2.5 under Windows to create some
>> >> config files and I'm having problems creating windows paths.
>> >>
>> >> There's a cut-down example below.
>> >>
>> >> from Cheetah.Template import Template
>> >> t = Template('#config_file    "c:\$p1\$p2"')
>> >> t.p1 = 'foo'
>> >> t.p2 = 'bar'
>> >> print t
>> >
>> > If you wrap them in curly braces you should be fine, i.e.
>> >
>> >        "c:\${p1}\${p2}"
>> >
>> > Let me know if that doesn't work for you
>



-- 
Jon Mills
[email protected]
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