Question

Is it possible to get the rendered body content from within a Mako template? What I mean is that I can display the body using ${self.body()}, but what if I want to do something to it first?

Answer 1

Apparently what I was looking for is the capture function. From the docs:

The other way to buffer the output of a def or any Mako callable is by
using the built-in capture function. This function performs an
operation similar to the above buffering operation except it is
specified by the caller.

${" results " + capture(somedef) + " more results "}

Or in my case:

<%
    body = capture(self.body)
    # etc.
%>