web.py and JavaScript issues

[theiostream]

I have been trying to make a page which combines web.py and
JavaScript, and with the following code:

$code:
def getContents(fname):
a = req.get(fname)
return a.content

<script type="text/javascript">
document.write("$getContents('http://mysite.net')");
</script>

(Where req is passed on my template's $def with(), being a module
object of the Python Requests (http://python-requests.org), from which
I execute methods.)

Problem is, the document is blank, which means the document.write
function got no input. Is there a way around this? Am I doing this in
a wrong way?

Thanks in advance,
~ theiostream.

[michael kapelko]

try to first do it without JS, just print $getContents at server side
with web.py only. may be it's simply empty.

[theiostream]

It's not. It works outside JavaScript.

[Alice Atlas]

Could you post the source of the rendered page as seen in your browser? If $getContents() is working correctly when used outside of JavaScript code, my best guess is that this is an escaping issue. e.g. if the page you're retrieving contains a double quote anywhere.

On Thursday, November 24, 2011 5:47:39 AM UTC-5, theiostream wrote:

It's not. It works outside JavaScript.

[Tom]

What should the content be? If it's more than text, don't forget to
add the colon: $:getContents('htttp://mysite.net')

[theiostream]

I tried the $:. It keeps not displaying, and then gives me escaping
issues.

[theiostream]

Here is the quoted part of the source code: http://pastie.org/2914370.
It renders http://matoe.co.cc/patcher.txt. As far as I can see there
is no escaping issue :(

[Alice Atlas]

Oh, looks like you just need to replace newlines in the string with \n.