Re: [Rest2web-develop] Re: Enhancement suggestion to rest2web

[Michael F. <fuz...@vo...>]

Gaël Varoquaux wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 10:42:26PM +0100, Michael Foord wrote:
>   
>>>    * A inlined function, such as <# print(2*2) #> should be able to add
>>>      files to the restindex['file'] list. That should probably be
>>>      rather easy to add.
>>>       
>
>
>   
>> There are several ways of doing this (including writing your own 
>> function and just importing it in the template).
>>     
>
>     I am reluctant to modify the rest2web files. But maybe I missed a
> way of doing this without modifying them. Currently I am only coding
> embedded code in the template.
>
>   
But you can import anything inside the templates - so keep it in an 
external file somewhere on ``sys.path`` (e.g. your ``site-packages`` 
folder) and import it.

If you wanted to make this easily available, the file to add it to is 
functions.py. If you write a general enough function I will add it to 
the distribution. Ah.. I can see below that you are aware of this file.
>> Where do you want to move files from and to ? Currently the 'file' 
>> keyword only moves files into the same directory as the target file 
>> being created. Is this what you want to do ?
>>     
>
>     You mean if the file keyword is "foo/bar" rest2web won't create a
> foo subdirectory in the target directory and copy bar there ? If so then
> I think it would be an interesting feature to add.
>
>   
I *don't* do this so that you can copy relative files into the target 
directory using the ``file`` keyword.

I think it would be easy enough to create a standard function that does 
this - so modifying the file keyword shouldn't be necessary.

>> I'm sure there is an easy function you could write to do this - I would 
>> be happy to include it in the set of standard functions if it was 
>> general enough.
>>     
> I have been trying to, but I cannot find a way of retrieving the
> target directory with embedded code. Are you suggesting that I modify
> function.py to add such a function and send you a patch ? I'll have a
> look at that.
>     If you can give me some advice on implementing that I am more then
> happy to do it.
>
>   
The full path to the page being generated is ``pagepath``.

You should find that ``os.path.dirname(pagepath)`` gives you the 
directory. Let me know how you get on with this.
>> I've been planning to add hashing for a while.
>>     
>> I am now busy implementing it - it jumped the queue !
>>     
>> It might still take a couple of weeks to get right, maybe less.
>>     
>     The more I think about it the more I think there is a certain amount
> of work. But I think it will be a very useful feature.
>
>     Thanks for such quick feedback (I joined the sourceforge mailing
> list and saw your mail).
>
>   
Well, I've started work on it. It might not be that easy because I need 
to pickle the data structures in use by rest2web. This means I need to 
check that there are no complicated cross references that won't be 
restored properly if I just copy data for individual pages from the pickle.

All the best,

Fuzzyman
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