Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Gerard Flanagan wrote:
>
> > Now I can do this:
> >
> > page = HtmlPage('Test Page')
> > navbar = page.div(id='left').ul(css='navbar')
> > for href,link in {'/home':'Home', '/shop':'Shop',
> > '/cart':'Cart'}.iteritems():
> > navbar.li.a(link,href=href)
> > page.div(id='main').h1('Header').p('<Text Goes Here>')
> >
> > So *that's* what '__call__' does - I am enlightened!
>
> just wait until you figure out what iteritems do ;-)
>
> :::
>
> I'm sure you already know it, but dictionaries aren't ordered, so that
> navigation bar may not come out as you'd expect.
>
> >>> {"/home": "Home", "/shop": "Shop", "/cart": "Cart"}
> {'/cart': 'Cart', '/shop': 'Shop', '/home': 'Home'}
>
Yes, ran into that yesterday! I knew dictionaries weren't ordered but
I assumed for simple tests like above, without any
additions/deletions, they would 'line up right' - seems that can't be
guaranteed.
All the best.
Gerard
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