.. title: Wedding site: using Pylons .. slug: pylons .. date: 2006-04-14 14:21:49 .. tags: dev, python, web
I'm building a wedding site that contains mostly static material but has some material that's reminsicent of CMS and some material that's database-driven, too.
I surveyed the scene of Python web-frameworks and settled on Pylons for various reasons but mostly because:
I've spent 40 minutes or so fiddling with the site so far with only a
few minor issues which required me to go poking through documentation.
One of the issues is that I have a series of templates in my templates/
dir and I uncommented out the commented out code in the
template.py
controller so it's like this:
from weddingwww.lib.base import * class TemplateController(BaseController): def view(self, url): from pkg_resources import resource_exists if resource_exists('weddingwww', url+'.myt'): m.subexec(url+'.myt') else: m.abort(404, "File not found '%s'" % url)
That doesn't seem to work as I'd expect. For example, if I go to
http://localhost:5000/meeting
, the url
parameter
ends up as meeting
but the resources_exist returns a false
even though there's a meeting.myt
file in my templates
directory.
After fiddling with this and trying to figure out where pkg_resources is defined, I just commented the code out and changed it to this:
from weddingwww.lib.base import * class TemplateController(BaseController): def view(self, url): m.subexec(url+'.myt')
which obviously does the wrong thing if the file doesn't exist.