Cherrypy’s Mako Plugin

CherrypyMako is a cherrypy plugin that provides Mako template engine , within cherrypy as a tool.

Example:

demo.py:

import os.path
import cherrypy
import CherrypyMako
import datetime
CherrypyMako.setup()
root_dir = os.path.abspath( os.path.dirname(__file__))

class Root(object):

    @cherrypy.expose
    @cherrypy.tools.mako(filename='index.html')
    def index(self):
        return {'currentTime':datetime.datetime.now()}


_cp_config={
    'global':{
        'server.socket_host'  : '0.0.0.0',
        'server.socket_port'  : 1919,
        'tools.mako.directories' : [os.path.join(root_dir,'templates')],
    },
}

if __name__ == '__main__':
    cherrypy.quickstart(Root(), '', config=_cp_config)

index.html:

<html>
        <head>
                <title>Cherrypy Mako Tool Demo</title>
        </head>
        <body>
                ${currentTime}
        </body>
</html>