Cheetah template driven object output? Pythonically?

[bruno at modulix]

Fried Egg wrote:
> This may be trivial or stupid or both, but does anyone have a recipe
> for gracefully using Cheetah to generate a text representation of an
> object, but embedded in the object (so that it can be pickled,
> unpickled, and told to display itself)?
> 
> Here is what I am thinking:
> 
> <pre>
> 
> import Cheetah.Template as T
> class Foo:
>     def __init__(self, mystate, cheetah_template='./mytemplate.tmpl'):
>         self.mystate = mystate
>         self._template = T.compile(<stuff>)
> 
>     def set_state(self, newstate):
>         self.mystate = newstate
> 
>     def as_html(self):
>          print self._template(searchlist=<SOMETHING GENERIC>)
> 
> </pre>
> 
> I guess that would work pretty well, though it is untested completely.
> Has anyone done anything fairly generic and similar?  Pitfalls?
> 

I don't know if may be of any help, but David Mertz has done something
related (pickling/unpickling) with XML and metaclasses:

http://gnosis.cx/download/gnosis/


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bruno desthuilliers
python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
p in 'onurb at xiludom.gro'.split('@')])"