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diff --git a/recipes/content/Basic_Inheritance.html b/recipes/content/Basic_Inheritance.html index 5ba8c78..213263c 100644 --- a/recipes/content/Basic_Inheritance.html +++ b/recipes/content/Basic_Inheritance.html @@ -376,7 +376,9 @@ Python.</p> <h2>Cheetah inheriting from Python</h2> <p>Whether or not you are aware of it, Cheetah templates are always inheriting from a Python class by default. Unless otherwise denoted, Cheetah templates are compiled -to Python classes that subclass from the Cheetah.Template.Template class.</p> +to Python classes that subclass from the <code>Cheetah.Template.Template</code> class.</p> +<p>What if you would like to introduce your own Template base class? Easily acheived by +defining your own Template class in a Python module, for example:</p> <pre><code>import Cheetah.Template class CookbookTemplate(Cheetah.Template.Template): @@ -385,6 +387,19 @@ class CookbookTemplate(Cheetah.Template.Template): def pageName(self): return self._page or 'Unknown' </code></pre> +<p><strong>Figure 1. cookbook.py</strong></p> +<p>For this example, I want all my subclasses of the <code>CookbookTemplate</code> to define a +page author which will be used in some shared rendering code, to accomplish this +my templates will need to subclass from <code>CookbookTemplate</code> explicitly instead of +implicitly subclassing from <code>Cheetah.Template.Template</code></p> +<pre><code>#import cookbook +#extends cookbook.CookbookTemplate +#attr author = 'Tavis Rudd' + +## The rest of my recipe template would be below +</code></pre> +<p><strong>Figure 2. recipe1.tmpl</strong></p> +<p><span style="float: right; clear: both;"><em>Last edited: Sat May 30 12:05:40 2009 </em></span></p> </div> <div id="rightcontent"> |