Re: setting template variables from plugins/ unkludging code/

cool! it'd be great to have a twitter plugin for pyblosxom.

On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, William Cybriwsky wrote:

> Hi, I'm a new user of pyblosxom, and I wanted to know how to set template
> variables from a plugin. I currently have the chunk of python code:

if you want the variables to be available in existing templates, you can set 
them on the request data. for example:

   def cb_prepare(args):
     data = args['request'].getData()
     data['twitterstatus'] = ...

if you're rendering an entry yourself, you can set it directly on the entry. 
for example:

   entry = args['entry']  # or entry = FileEntry(request) or ...
   entry['twitterstatus'] = ...

see http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/1.3.1/api/ .


> P.S. : if I wanted to write some simple cache code, how would I just do a
> check for a file age of 60 seconds?

if i understand right, you only want to check your twitter status every 60 
seconds, so on each request, you want to check if tmptwit.xml is over 60 
seconds old? try os.path.getmtime():

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-os.path.html#l2h-2168

-Ryan

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