[reportlab-users] Cheetah

[Brandon Rich]

I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question, but perhaps
someone has some insight to my question .

Currently I have a cheetah template file that has all hard coded
information that I am passing back to Reportlab and then appending to a
PDF.  I also have a python file that is passed back to Reportlab in the
form of a dictionary.  Question, once changing the cheetah template
file, to include say a $city, how do I pass the information from the
dictionary?  I have looked at several examples online, but none seem to
be working currently.  Any help would be great.

Thanks in advance

Brandon   

from pdfutil import *
from StringIO import StringIO
from notice_data import *
from Cheetah.Template import Template

notices = getNotices()  #returns dictionary 
file = open("test.pdf","wb")
letters_file = StringIO()
create_letter(letters_file) #create_letter returns handled XML currently

pdf = letters_file.getvalue()
letters_file.close()
file.write(pdf)
file.close()

Cheetah template file

<doc>
<para>You are from<b>$city</b><br/><br/>

Dictionary 
[{'violator': {'city': 'LA', 'zip': '9999', 'suffix': 'Jr'}]