I want to set up a lookup function with mako. on top of the template, i have
<%!
lookup = { 'key': function }
%>
<%def name="function()">
Output
</%def>
so i can use it later
<%def name="body()">
${lookup['key']()}
</%def>
this gives me a function is not a defined error. can i get around this?
i know why it doesn't work, as it runs first, before the method gets loaded, but how else would i set this up?
I can tell you why it isn't working, but I do not have a clean solution at this point. Your template as given compiles into this Python code:
# -*- encoding:utf-8 -*-
from mako import runtime, filters, cache
UNDEFINED = runtime.UNDEFINED
__M_dict_builtin = dict
__M_locals_builtin = locals
_magic_number = 5
_modified_time = 1285968547.0498569
_template_filename='<snip>'
_template_uri='<snip>'
_template_cache=cache.Cache(__name__, _modified_time)
_source_encoding='utf-8'
_exports = ['function']
# SOURCE LINE 1
lookup = { 'key': function }
def render_body(context,**pageargs):
context.caller_stack._push_frame()
try:
__M_locals = __M_dict_builtin(pageargs=pageargs)
__M_writer = context.writer()
# SOURCE LINE 3
__M_writer(u'\n\n')
# SOURCE LINE 7
__M_writer(u'\n')
return ''
finally:
context.caller_stack._pop_frame()
def render_function(context):
context.caller_stack._push_frame()
try:
__M_writer = context.writer()
# SOURCE LINE 5
__M_writer(u'\n Output\n')
return ''
finally:
context.caller_stack._pop_frame()
As you can see your function
has actually been defined as render_function
. The Mako docs specify how to call defs from outside a template, but they do not indicate how to do this properly at runtime. The code that I have linked too simply does a lookup for "render_%s" % name
(see mako.template, line 217), so you might consider just doing that.
Maybe you could delay the lookup of function
from dict-creation time to invocation time?
<%!
lookup = { 'key': lambda: function() }
%>
I haven't used Mako, but it works in the Python shell:
>>> x = lambda: foo()
>>> x
<function <lambda> at 0x10047e050>
>>> x()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <lambda>
NameError: global name 'foo' is not defined
>>> def foo():
... print "Test"
...
>>> x()
Test