template last modification time

[Manlio Perillo]

Hi.

Is it possible to have access to the last modification time of a template?

I need it to properly set the Last-Modified header (when only the
template has been modified, and not the data source).

The Template object has a _last_modified attribute that works as I want,
but it is private.

Thanks Manlio Perillo

[Michael Bayer]

certainly you should use _last_modified for now. we can look into
making those variables non-underscored in the next release.

[Jose Galvez]

I tried ${_last_modified } and ${self._last_modified } neither give me
the expected date. How do you _last_modified?
Jose

[Manlio Perillo]

Michael Bayer ha scritto:

> certainly you should use _last_modified for now. we can look into
> making those variables non-underscored in the next release.
>

Thanks.

> On Oct 2, 2007, at 11:09 AM, Manlio Perillo wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> Is it possible to have access to the last modification time of a
>> template?
>>
>> I need it to properly set the Last-Modified header (when only the
>> template has been modified, and not the data source).
>>
>> The Template object has a _last_modified attribute that works as I
>> want,

A precisation: the attribute is "_modified_time" and it is defined in
the "module" attribute of the Template object (and it seems that it is
always defined, even for string based templates).

Manlio Perillo

[Michael Bayer]

it wont work from inside the template, since _last_modified will
replace itself with a contextual variable. in the template you can
get to it as self.module._last_modified (its also a one liner to add
self.last_modified to namespace....).

[Jose Galvez]

Cool thanks
Jose