[Cheetahtemplate-discuss] Re: Using bare '$$' in a template

[Tavis R. <ta...@re...>]

Jeff,
what version of Cheetah are you using?  This works fine for me and
there is a test case to test it as well.
Tavis

On Saturday 23 February 2002 13:44, Mike Orr wrote:
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> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 18:01:43 -0800
> To: Cheetah Template List
> <che...@li...> Subject: Using bare
> '$$' in a template
>
> I have a template converted from an HTML file.  It contains a
> phrase:
>
> 	I'm out of $$ now
>
> cheetah-compile throws an error because the placeholder names have
> no components:
>
>   File
> "/local/opt/Python/lib/python2.2/site-packages/Cheetah/Parser.py",
> line 1107, in eatPlaceholder
>     codeChunk  = self.genCheetahVar(nameChunks)
>   File
> "/local/opt/Python/lib/python2.2/site-packages/Cheetah/Compiler.py"
>, line 108, in genCheetahVar
>     return self.genNameMapperVar(nameChunks)
>   File
> "/local/opt/Python/lib/python2.2/site-packages/Cheetah/Compiler.py"
>, line 162, in genNameMapperVar
>     chunk = nameChunks.pop()
> IndexError: pop from empty list
>
> I worked around this by changing the template to:
>
>         I'm out of \$\$ now
>
> But perhaps we can think of a way to either smartly identify this
> or to print a more descriptive error message.

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