Re: [Cheetahtemplate-discuss] Problems with SettingsManager

[Larry S. <la...@li...>]

Mike Orr wrote:
> 
> It's preferable to build the search list before instantiating the
> template, but if you must add a namespace inside the template:
> 
> #silent self.searchList().insert(0, my_dict)

That's essentially what I was doing at first, then I just moved the use of the 
SettingsManager into my driver script.

> As for building the dicts, that's not really a Cheetah issue.  You can
> use SettingsManager, ConfigParser, that ConfigParser enhancement whose
> name I can't remember, email headers (using the email package), etc.
> One cool way is execfile: write a quasi Python module and use execfile
> to load it into a dict.  If you have to teach somebody a new syntax
> anyway, teaching them Python syntax is not that big a leap.  Just have
> them do simple variable assignments with triple-quoted strings.  That
> way they won't have to do anything special if the value spans multiple
> lines or contains quotes.

Excellent - that's exactly what I needed.  The execfile method is much superior 
to SettingsManager for one key reason - multiline strings do not end up coming 
out with embedded \n characters, they come out as multiple lines, which is what 
I want.

Thanks for pointing me at this (even if it wasn't a cheetah specific problem). 
You've really helped me out.

Larry.