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Tornado UI Module

I'm using Tornado and have a html file that I want to use as the content for an email. The way i'm emailing is to use a os.system() command. However I need to dynamically create a section of the html file. I have been reading about UI modules. I'm wondering if i can use the UI module to pass arguments to dynamically create a html page and then retrieve this as a string?

I've beem using the standard templates within my html to render pages in html. E.g.

class xxx(BaseHandler):
   async def get(self):
    self.render("xxx.html",
                  s=sss,
                  u=user,
                  p="somethingXXX")

I want to use the same template functionality however be able to retrieve the string? Is this possible?

Solution

  • You're looking for the RequestHandler.render_string method. This is similar to render, but it returns the string to the caller instead of writing it as the HTTP response.

    UIModules are different - they're a way of organizing things within your templates, with special features for javascript/css dependencies (and they only work with render, not render_string).