Compile Cheetah Template on Windows

[brianrpsgt1]

Newbie here....

I have been able to successful pull info from a MySQL DB, get the
results and output them in an HTML format using Cheetah to the screen
using IDLE. I am doing this on a Windows Laptop, running WinXP,
Python 2.5 and the latest version of Cheetah.

I have two questions:
1. How and where do you compile Cheetah templates in Windows? The
command in the docs is cheetah compile a, however, I believe that this
is for Linux. This does nothing in a DOS Prompt. Please provide the
info for this command in Windows.

2. How do I output the HTML to a file? I tried the following:

FILE = open(filename, "wt")
FILE.writelines(output)
FILE.close()

I get an error though that states that writelines() requires an
interable argument

Thnx for any assistance!

B

[Tim Roberts]

brianrpsgt1 <br*******@cox.netwrote:

>
I have been able to successful pull info from a MySQL DB, get the
results and output them in an HTML format using Cheetah to the screen
using IDLE. I am doing this on a Windows Laptop, running WinXP,
Python 2.5 and the latest version of Cheetah.

I have two questions:
1. How and where do you compile Cheetah templates in Windows? The
command in the docs is cheetah compile a, however, I believe that this
is for Linux. This does nothing in a DOS Prompt. Please provide the
info for this command in Windows.

The Cheetah installation should have created scripts called "cheetah" and
"cheetah-compile" in your Python25\Scripts directory. The issue you have
is that they aren't on your path.

One answer is to copy Python25\Scripts\cheetah to \Windows\cheetah.py and
Python25\Scripts\cheetah-compile to \Windows\cheetah-compile.py. Then you
can type "cheetah.py compile xxx" or "cheetah-compile.py xxx".

However, you don't have to compile them in advance. You can do "from
Cheetah.Template import Template" and compile them on the fly, with
tmpl = Template( file='page.tmpl' )

>2. How do I output the HTML to a file? I tried the following:

FILE = open(filename, "wt")
FILE.writelines(output)
FILE.close()

I get an error though that states that writelines() requires an
interable argument

Just use FILE.write( output ).
--
Tim Roberts, ti**@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.