For performance reason as suggested here, I am studying how to used the pr-compiled template.
I edit hello.tmpl in template directory as
#attr title = "This is my Template"
<html>
<head>
<title>\${title}</title>
</head>
<body>
Hello \${who}!
</body>
</html>
then issued cheetah-compile.exe .\hello.tmpl and get the hello.py
In another python file runner.py, I have:
#!/usr/bin/env python
from Cheetah.Template import Template
from template import hello
def myMethod():
tmpl = hello.hello(searchList=[{'who' : 'world'}])
results = tmpl.respond()
print tmpl
if __name__ == '__main__':
myMethod()
But the outcome is
<html>
<head>
<title>${title}</title>
</head>
<body>
Hello ${who}!
</body>
</html>
Debugging for a while, I found that inside hello.py:
def respond(self, trans=None):
## CHEETAH: main method generated for this template
if (not trans and not self._CHEETAH__isBuffering and not callable(self.transaction)):
trans = self.transaction # is None unless self.awake() was called
if not trans:
trans = DummyTransaction()
it looks like the trans is None, so it goes to DummyTransaction, what did I miss here?
Any suggestions to how to fix it?
Your main problem is that in runner.py inside
myMethod()instead ofYou need
Additionally, your code has some formatting problems:
if __name__ == '__main__':instead ofif name == 'main':