Re: making flavours easier

will guaraldi writes:
 > You could use my pyinclude plugin.  That allows you to include files into 
 > a template.
 > 
 > http://pyblosxom.sourceforge.net/blog/registry/include/pyinclude

Well done!  May I offer this enhancement?  Works a champ with a
blogroll that looks like this:

http://blog.russnelson.com	Russell Nelson
http://angry-economist.russnelson.com	The Angry Economist

and an inclusion that looks like this:

  $util::include("blogroll.data",'<li><a href="%s">%s</a>\n')

--- plugins/pyinclude.py        Wed Mar  9 15:01:24 2005
+++ plugins/pyimport.py       Mon Mar 14 10:39:35 2005
@@ -90,7 +75,7 @@
 def verify_installation(request):
     return 1
 
-def include(req, filename):
+def include(req, filename, template=None):
     """
     This takes in one argument--a filename.  It opens the file, reads
     in the contents, and returns them as the value of this variable.
@@ -108,7 +93,12 @@
 
     try:
         f = open(filename, "r")
-        lines = "".join(f.readlines())
+        if template:
+            lines = ""
+            for line in f:
+                lines += template % tuple(line.rstrip().split('\t'))
+        else:
+            lines = "".join(f.readlines())
         f.close()
         return eval_python_blocks(req, lines)
     except:

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