Is it possible to reassign to a new variable name in a Mako template?

[Tom Stratton]

Hi -

Very new and struggling a little. The Mako community could benefit greatly from more examples on the website - if I every "get it" I'll try to contribute.

I'm trying to use Mako NOT for html page output but to create a relative simple way for a client to format output from another script. What I was hoping to do was pass a dictionary into the render  and then reassign the different pieces of the dict to variable names in the template. 

Seems that if I ever have a ${} on the right hand side of any assignment then I get an error... 

<%

foo= 'some values'

%>

${foo}

works but if I try

<%

foo= ${somevariable}

%>

${foo}

it always generates an error.

Am I simply not going to be able to do this?

[Brian Rue]

Inside the <% %> block it's just regular python code, so you don't need the ${}. Try this:

<%

foo = somevariable

%>

${foo}

You can put any arbitrary python code in the <% %> block... if statements, for loops, imports, define functions, etc.

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[Tom Stratton]

Ahhh ---- 

Thanks for that!

Tom