""" Bonus Tutorial: Using generators to return result bodies Instead of returning a complete result string, you can use the yield statement to return one result part after another. This may be convenient in situations where using a template package like CherryPy or Cheetah would be overkill, and messy string concatenation too uncool. ;-) """ import cherrypy class GeneratorDemo: def header(self): return "<html><body><h2>Generators rule!</h2>" def footer(self): return "</body></html>" def index(self): # Let's make up a list of users for presentation purposes users = ['Remi', 'Carlos', 'Hendrik', 'Lorenzo Lamas'] # Every yield line adds one part to the total result body. yield self.header() yield "<h3>List of users:</h3>" for user in users: yield "%s<br/>" % user yield self.footer() index.exposed = True import os.path tutconf = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'tutorial.conf') if __name__ == '__main__': # CherryPy always starts with app.root when trying to map request URIs # to objects, so we need to mount a request handler root. A request # to '/' will be mapped to HelloWorld().index(). cherrypy.quickstart(GeneratorDemo(), config=tutconf) else: # This branch is for the test suite; you can ignore it. cherrypy.tree.mount(GeneratorDemo(), config=tutconf)