Control template inheritance

[Jens Stimpfle]

I have a inherited template which in turn should inherit from one of a
set of base templates

middle.mako -> base.mako
- or -
middle.mako -> base2.mako

I'd like to have the client of middle.mako decide which one to use. Is
this possible? The only thing I could achieve was

# middle.mako
<%! basetemplate = "base2.mako" %>
<%inherit file="${basetemplate}"/>

But I haven't been able to set the basetemplate variable from a client.
Example which does *not* work:

# middle.mako
## I want basetemplate to be preset somehow
<%inherit file="${basetemplate}"/>

# client.mako
## DOES NOT WORK, is not seen by middle.mako
## (because technically "<%!" is module-level)
<%! basetemplate = "base2.mako" %>
<%inherit file="middle.mako"/>


Have a nice day
Jens Stimpfle

[Michael Bayer]

sorry, missed this email

you can access the runtime namespace in <%inherit> by referring to "context" directly:

<%inherit file="${context['foo']}" />

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