Warning, big image!!!!
Whereas, ’special forces hand signals’ was the number one search on dotnot.org from google, and whereas the link on my prior post has disappeared, I have decided to serve the image directly from here: special forces hand signals

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…and I do not want to precompile my templates. This one was pretty simple, as there is one recipe on the Cheetah Wiki about it. We start there and just modify it a bit. Here goes. First, we add the following somewhere in our apache config (I added it to my .htaccess):

That was easy, now we write the code for cheetah.py:

Pretty simple really.

• Set up the imports (1-4)
• define the handler for mod_python to kick in (6)
• (Optional) create a session and add it to the request (8-9)
• tell the client the result will be HTML (10)
• adjust the uri down to a template filename. For instance if the request uri was ‘/example/test.tmpl’, then strip off the ‘/example/’ to come up with ‘test.tmpl’. Note that line 11 could just as easily read base_path = "/example/" (11,12)
• Find the template in the path (this code is found here) (13)
• construct the template, passing in the request object as part of the template’s available namespace. For example, in mod_python, you can get the path of the request uri by req.uri. In the template, you just use $uri, as the req. is silent (14)
• ‘fill’ the template (execute it?), returning the string result (15)
• finish the request and return success (16-19)

How much easier can it be? Now you create the template (hello.tmpl):

Now, when you hit http://localhost/example/hello.tmpl, you will see “Hello World”.

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I have now settled on using Cheetah along with mod_python and Apache 2 for my new new web framework, and I find myself only missing 2 things from the PHP world:

1. php.net’s awesome documentation
2. overriding variables in {include} directives in Smarty

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I am building a simple web framework in Python, and I need everything to be inheritable and extinsible. This includes content. So, I am doing the brain dead thing and using Python’s sys.path to search for content that may not have been overridden in the current context. The code was hacked up from a version I found here, in the first comment. I will try to find the link and post it later. This version is greatly simplified.

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Found a house in Rough and Ready, CA (just west of Nevada City/Grass Valley), made an offer, and the offer has been accepted. Now we aren’t as homeless as we used to be

The house is 2600 square feet on 5.3 acres, with a 2400 square foot shop. The shop is a bit small, but I’ll learn to make do The house is 4 bedrooms and 2.5 baths, with a 3 car garage. We are far enough ‘in the country’ to have a well and septic system. It is 10 months old (which is jolly good). I will try and post pictures soon.

When this is all said and done, I will also have a recommendation for a realtor in the Nevada County, CA area. He has been great so far, we just need to finish so that I can share the story.

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