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Code snippets for Django-powered layouts in Python blog post at eliotk.net
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basic-gae-template-rendering.py
template_values = {
}
path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'index.html')
self.response.out.write(template.render(path, template_values))
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layout.html
<html>
<head>
... css, js, meta tags ...
</head>
<body>
... main layout html perhaps including navigation and logo ...
{{view}}
</body>
</html>
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main.py
class MainHandler(webapp.RequestHandler):
def get(self):
layout_values = {
'view': render_view('index.html')
}
path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'layout.html')
self.response.out.write(template.render(path, layout_values))
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render-view-function.py
from django.template import Template, Context
def render_view(view_name, template_dict = {}):
path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), view_name)
f = open(path, 'r')
view_str = f.read()
t = Template(view_str)
return t.render(Context(template_dict))
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