I'm using the following function to execute a simple HTML view:
import cherrypy
class index(object):
@cherrypy.expose
def example(self):
var = "goodbye"
index = open("index.html").read()
return index
Our index.html file is:
<body>
<h1>Hello, {var}!</h1>
</body>
How can I pass the {var} variable to the view from my controller?
I'm using CherryPy microframework to run the HTTP server and I'm NOT using any template engine.
change your html file and format it.
index.html
<body>
<h1>Hello, {first_header:}!</h1>
<p>{p2:}, {p1:}!</p>
</body>
The code
index = open("index.html").read().format(first_header='goodbye',
p1='World',
p2='Hello')
The Output
<body>
<h1>Hello, goodbye!</h1>
<p>Hello, World!</p>
</body>
<body>
<h1>Hello, {p.first_header}</h1>
</body>
class Main:
first_header = 'World!'
# Read the HTML file
HTML_File=open('index.html','r')
s = HTML_File.read().format(p=Main())
print(s)
<body>
<h1>Hello, World!</h1>
</body>
CherryPy does not provide any HTML template but its architecture makes it easy to integrate one. Popular ones are Mako or Jinja2.
Source: http://docs.cherrypy.org/en/latest/advanced.html#html-templating-support
Old question but I'll update a little bit.
More convenient way you can pass data to html template as dict.
index.html
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Invoice</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Invoice</h1>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Quantity</th>
<th>Price</th>
<th>Total</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>{invoice_number}</td>
<td>{date}</td>
<td>{customer_name}</td>
<td>{total}</td>
</tr>
</body>
</html>
Python
context = {
"invoice_number": "12345",
"date": "2023-04-25",
"customer_name": "John Doe",
"total": 85,
}
with open("index.html", "r") as file:
html = file.read().format(**context)
The output will be html file with given data in context.
