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This is a small addition to the mako template processing plugin for django that allows you to use the unit test framework with mako templates. To install, put the code into a file on your python path, and add the python path to your settings.py file. For example, if you install the code at
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mako_django/test_integration.py
you would add the following line to settings.py:
TEST_RUNNER="mako_django.test_integration.run_mako_tests"
This code will still call all of the normal test code, it just adds the mako template handler onto the list of things that are monitored.
- mako
- testing
- test
- mako-django
This snippet allows you to use @mako("templatename.mako") to define a mako template to use.
Your python method just has to return a dictionary that will be passed to mako's context, after the addition of the "request" variable to the dictionary. If you return a non-False non dictionary object, it will return that instead of trying to render the template. The **request** variable is automatically added to the template's context.
It also searches the current application's mako_templates/ subdirectory first before searching under the current directories mako_templates/, and does not use other application's mako_templates/ subdirectories at all.
On Mako exceptions, it will display the Mako error page when debugging is enabled (hoping for extensible exception handling in the future to keep consistency)
I got the idea from a [CherryPy tool](http://tools.cherrypy.org/wiki/Mako).
You can download these files from [here](http://huangyilib.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/mashi_django)
Django template, mako, genshi, they are the best three templates in python, aren't they?
How to use these files ?
[Using Mako in Django](http://fuzzythinker.blogspot.com/2007/04/using-mako-in-django.html)
-- by John Leung
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