Re: Cheetah's #include base directory

On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Pablo Antonio wrote:

> Hello,
>     this is my first day with Cheetah. I have an old app which uses
> the web.py framework and Cheetah for templating.

Howdy! Sorry I missed you on IRC, we're quite a ways apart as far as time zones
are concerned ;)

> Thing is some files have an '#include "<file>"' at the top. They usually
> include some header with the DOCTYPE and a title and that's pretty much
> it. Well, the problem is this <file> is being searched in the current
> directory the app is located, and not in the ./templates/ dir which is
> where the templates are.

Personally I don't use the #include directive ever (I find it too much like
Smarty (read: hacky)). That said, you *might* be able to override the method on
your base template class `serverSidePath` which is what the #include directive
handler uses to locate the included template. In effect:

    #import os.path
    #def serverSidePath(**kwargs)
        ## serverSidePath takes a `path` keyword arg

        ## Assuming your templates directory is called `templates`
        #return os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'templates', kwargs['path'))
    #end def

I'm making a couple of assumptions in the code above, namely that `os.getcwd()`
will return the application's base directory. That said, let me know if you
can't get serverSidePath to work for you, I'll be on IRC for the next 8-12
hours while I work so feel free to ping me there :)

> How can I fix this? Is this different in newer versions? I'm using 2.0.1
> (the newest in Ubuntu's repositories).

It's worth noting that v2.4.1 is the latest release
(http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Cheetah/2.4.1)

Cheers,
-R. Tyler Ballance
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