You can create an 'h' helper object as described
here-->
http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid_cookbook/en/latest/templates/templates.html#using-a-before-render-event-to-expose-an-h-helper-object
or just have a subscribers.py file with:
@subscriber(BeforeRender)
def template_globals(event):
request = event['request'] ## this is how you access the request
object in this function
from datetime import datetime
event.update({'someglobalvar': 'this is my global value',
'thedate': datetime.now})
return ##no need to return anything
Then you can just do ${thedate()} in any of your templates.
-Raj
On Wednesday, May 9, 2012 12:27:14 AM UTC-4, Theron Luhn wrote:
>
> I can pass variables into my template by returning them in a dictionary
> from the view controller. However, if I try to access a variable from the
> template that I didn't pass, I'll get an error. Is it possible to have a
> default value so I don't get an error? Maybe with BeforeRender or something?
>
> - Theron
>
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