Background: I'm using Genshi to generate HTML reports.
import genshi
import os
from genshi.template import MarkupTemplate
files = [
r"a\b\c.txt",
r"d/e/f.txt",
]
html = '''
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:py="http://genshi.edgewall.org/">
<head>
</head>
<body>
<p py:for="f in sorted(files, key=lambda x: x.lower().split(os.path.sep))">
${f}
</p>
</body>
</html>
'''
template = MarkupTemplate(html)
stream = template.generate(
files = files
)
print(stream.render('html'))
Problem: Genshi throws an UndefinedError exception because it doesn't know about modules I've imported.
D:\SVN\OSI_SVT\0.0.0.0_swr65430\srcPy\OSI_SVT>python36 test.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 26, in <module>
print(stream.render('html'))
File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\genshi\core.py", line 184, in render
return encode(generator, method=method, encoding=encoding, out=out)
...
genshi.template.eval.UndefinedError: "os" not defined
Question: Is there some way to make Genshi automatically aware of imported modules?
If this isn't possible natively in Genshi, I'd accept an answer that programmatically creates a collection of modules have been imported so they can be passed to the generate() call. For example: generate(**args)
What I've tried:
- Read the genshi documentation.
- Searched StackOverflow. No dice.
- Adding
os = osto thetemplate.generate()call. This does work, but it is annoying and error-prone to have to duplicate my imports.
I found a way to do this outside of Genshi. This approach adds all global and local objects (imports as well as global and local variables) and adds them to a dictionary. The dictionary is then passed to
generate()as keyword args (see this answer if you aren't familiar with this).