gistfile1.txt

tyler@papaya:~> less foo.tmpl
from BaseClass import BaseClass
class $module.module(BaseClass):
    pass
tyler@papaya:~> python
Python 2.6 (r26:66714, Dec  3 2008, 10:55:18)
[GCC 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291]] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from Cheetah.Template import Template
>>> class FakeModule(object):
...   module = 'Fakey'
...
>>> t = Template (file="foo.tmpl",searchList=[{'module' : FakeModule()}])
>>> f = open('genfoo.py', 'w')
>>> f.write(str(t))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/Cheetah/Template.py", line 988, in __str__
    return getattr(self, mainMethName)()
  File "_home_tyler_foo_tmpl.py", line 88, in respond
NameError: global name 'BaseClass' is not defined
>>>