Using mako.imports setting in Pyramid

[Hollister]

I'd like to use  mako.imports = 'import logging' in the .ini file to replace

<%!

    import logging

%>

In each template, but it does not work. The template just throws NameError: name 'logging' is not defined when I attempt to use it.

It appears the mako.imports doesn't even get called, since a setting like mako.imports = 'import SpamAndEggs' doesn't throw an error.

I'm using Pyramid 1.3 and Mako 0.7.0.

I also posted this on SO, but not a peep yet.

[Hollister]

Ok, so looking at the Pyramid-generated Mako template code, it just literally outputs what's in that config setting, quotes, brackets and all.

So, the syntax has to be:

mako.imports = import logging

with multiple imports as

mako.imports = import logging, some.other.module

not

mako.imports = import logging, import some.other.module

Which I didn't infer from the documentation that reads "String list of Python statements, typically individual “import” lines" (but maybe I just didn't understand it correctly).

Thanks to Mike Bayer for pointing me in the right direction in replying to my post on Mako. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mako-discuss/RNUfqX12YHE

[Michael Merickel]

"individual import lines" is indicating support for something like

mako.imports =
import logging
import some.other.module

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[Hollister]

Ah, so not a string list in the Python sense at all.

This is where a brief example would go a long way.

Thanks!