chameleon: getting started

[ru...@yahoo.com]

i am complete newb with chameleon (downloaded 30 minutes ago) and am
having a problem with basic use.

based on the docs,
http://chameleon.repoze.org/docs/latest/library.html#getting-started
i do (in python 2.7.1)

>>> from chameleon import PageTemplate
>>> template = PageTemplate("<div>Hello, $name.</div>")
>>> template(name='John')
u'<div>Hello, $name.</div>'

why does not the template variable get substituted?

[ru...@yahoo.com]

Answering my own question, it should be of course,

template = PageTemplate("<div>Hello, ${name}.</div>")

Apparently the curly brackets got nuked in the documentation.
Sorry for not reading further before posting.

[Phoebe Pei]

You lost the $ before {name}
the variables in chameleon must be started with a '$'
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[Malthe Borch]

On 14 September 2011 00:08, ru...@yahoo.com <ru...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> u'<div>Hello, $name.</div>'
>
> why does not the template variable get substituted?

Sorry about that.

It was changed in 2.1. After this release, you must use brackets.

I'll update the documentation right away.

Thanks,

\malthe