When trying to use Mako with the Pyramid framework, by going into the development.ini file, and adding the line
mako.directories = TestProject:templates
in:
[app:TestProject]
and then creating a simple html file called template.mako in the templates subdirectory I get an:
ImportError: No module named TestProject
But I fail to understand why this is happening after the above steps. Why are those steps generating an importError?
More detials of the error:
URL: http://localhost:6543/
File 'C:\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\weberror-0.10.3-py2.7.egg\\weberror\\evalexception.py', line 431 in respond
app_iter = self.application(environ, detect_start_response)
File 'C:\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\pyramid-1.0-py2.7.egg\\pyramid\\router.py', line 158 in __call__
response = view_callable(context, request)
File 'C:\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\pyramid-1.0-py2.7.egg\\pyramid\\config.py', line 2839 in _rendered_view
context)
File 'C:\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\pyramid-1.0-py2.7.egg\\pyramid\\renderers.py', line 294 in render_view
request=request)
File 'C:\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\pyramid-1.0-py2.7.egg\\pyramid\\renderers.py', line 322 in render_to_response
result = self.render(value, system_values, request=request)
File 'C:\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\pyramid-1.0-py2.7.egg\\pyramid\\renderers.py', line 298 in render
renderer = self.renderer
File 'C:\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\pyramid-1.0-py2.7.egg\\pyramid\\decorator.py', line 17 in __get__
val = self.wrapped(inst)
File 'C:\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\pyramid-1.0-py2.7.egg\\pyramid\\renderers.py', line 280 in renderer
return factory(self)
File 'C:\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\pyramid-1.0-py2.7.egg\\pyramid\\mako_templating.py', line 77 in renderer_factory
directories = [ abspath_from_asset_spec(d) for d in directories ]
File 'C:\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\pyramid-1.0-py2.7.egg\\pyramid\\asset.py', line 207 in abspath_from_asset_spec
return pkg_resources.resource_filename(pname, filename)
File 'C:\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\setuptools-0.6c12dev_r88124-py2.7.egg\\pkg_resources.py', line 881 in resource_filename
File 'C:\\env\\lib\\site-packages\\setuptools-0.6c12dev_r88124-py2.7.egg\\pkg_resources.py', line 201 in get_provider
ImportError: No module named TestProject
As summary:
Edit the file development.ini and add in the section [app:MyProject]:
mako.directories = myproject:templates
Now we can open the file /MyProject/myproject/__init__.py and add a line like:
config.add_route('foo', '/foo', view='myproject.views.foo', view_renderer='foo.mako')
This will render the template located in:
/MyProject/myproject/templates/foo.mako
Note: MyProject and myproject are the name of YOUR project. Respect the case.
Remember to do the same configuration in production.ini file!
Edit:I see in the 1.3a1 version of pyramid (2011-12-09) Changelog in the Features section:
A mako.directories setting is no longer required to use Mako templates Rationale: Mako template renderers can be specified using an absolute asset spec. An entire application can be written with such asset specs, requiring no ordered lookup path.