Question

Hi I am having problems with the template using Bottle

my folder structure is this:

|views  
 --main.tpl
 --|blog
    --home.tpl

what I want to do is this:

def home():
    return template('blog/home')  

but it won’t work

I can get it to work just calling the following:

def home():
    return template('main')     

But I want to be-able to have many different folders
I understand that I will still need to keep unique names because of the caching
and please don’t say use a different framework as this is not my choice.

Answer 1

You can try passing the template_lookup argument to the template function. template_lookup overrides the defaults .views path when looking for the template. However I believe this will only work if the name of the tempalte is not in the views folder. So if you had a /views/main.tpl and a /blog/main.tpl it would not work, every template needs a unique name. This is needed because bottle will only lookup search for tempaltes if it hasn’t found it before and stores the found ones in a dict with the tempalte name as the key. so if the templates have the same name it would use the first one.

return template("home", template_lookup="full_path_to/views/blog/"