app/soc/views/helpers/template_helpers.py
author Todd Larsen <tlarsen@google.com>
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:30:55 +0000
changeset 113 26d86de67714
child 125 155f43a0fa68
permissions -rw-r--r--
Helpers for manipulating templates and template search paths. Patch by: Todd Larsen Review by: to-be-reviewed

#!/usr/bin/python2.5
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"""Helpers for manipulating templates.
"""

__authors__ = [
  '"Todd Larsen" <tlarsen@google.com>',
  ]


def makeSiblingTemplatesList(templates, new_template_file):
  """Converts template paths into a list of "sibling" templates.
  
  Args:
    templates: search list of templates (or just a single template not in a
      list) from which template paths will be extracted (discarding the final
      template file name of each template)
    new_template_file: new "sibling" template file to append to each extracted
      template path
      
  Returns:
    A list of potential "sibling" templates named by new_template_file located
    in the paths of the templates in the supplied list.  For example, from:
      ['foo/bar/the_old_template.html', 'foo/the_old_template.html']
    to:
      ['foo/bar/some_new_template.html', 'foo/some_new_template.html']
  """
  if not isinstance(templates, (list, tuple)):
    templates = [templates]

  return [
      '%s/%s' % (t.rsplit('/', 1)[0], new_template_file) for t in templates]