[reportlab-users] Cheetah

[Robson, Alan]

I don't know if this is the right way to do it, but I created a python module full of "helper" functions and then included it in the cheetah template.
 
That way I could create a function in python that took the dictionary as a parameter and returned a value that cheetah could use.
 
For example. 
 
in my_module...
 
def to_city(my_dictionary, violator):
   record = my_dictionary.get(violator, False)
   if record:
      return record.get('city', 'no fixed abode')
   return 'no fixed abode'
 
then inside cheetah, something like...
 
#from my_module import *
...
<doc>
<para>You are from<b>$to_city($dictionary, $violator)(</b><br/><br/>
 

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From: reportlab-users-bounces at reportlab.com on behalf of Brandon Rich
Sent: Tue 2/5/2008 8:57 AM
To: Support list for users of Reportlab software
Subject: [reportlab-users] Cheetah



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'}]
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