<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>4.9.2 Functions</title> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="4.9.2 Functions"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="modpython"> <META NAME="resource-type" CONTENT="document"> <META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global"> <link rel="STYLESHEET" href="modpython.css"> <link rel="first" href="modpython.html"> <link rel="contents" href="contents.html" title="Contents"> <link rel="index" href="genindex.html" title="Index"> <LINK REL="previous" href="pyapi-psp-syntax.html"> <LINK REL="up" href="pyapi-psp.html"> <LINK REL="next" href="directives.html"> </head> <body> <DIV CLASS="navigation"> <table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td><A href="pyapi-psp-syntax.html"><img src="icons/previous.png" border="0" height="32" alt="Previous Page" width="32"></A></td> <td><A href="pyapi-psp.html"><img src="icons/up.png" border="0" height="32" alt="Up One Level" width="32"></A></td> <td><A href="directives.html"><img src="icons/next.png" border="0" height="32" alt="Next Page" width="32"></A></td> <td align="center" width="100%">Mod_python Manual</td> <td><A href="contents.html"><img src="icons/contents.png" border="0" height="32" alt="Contents" width="32"></A></td> <td><img src="icons/blank.png" border="0" height="32" alt="" width="32"></td> <td><A href="genindex.html"><img src="icons/index.png" border="0" height="32" alt="Index" width="32"></A></td> </tr></table> <b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" href="pyapi-psp-syntax.html">4.9.1 PSP Syntax</A> <b class="navlabel">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" href="pyapi-psp.html">4.9 _psp - Python</A> <b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" href="directives.html">5. Apache Configuration Directives</A> <br><hr> </DIV> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <H2><A NAME="SECTION006920000000000000000"> </A> <BR> 4.9.2 Functions </H2> <P> <dl><dt><b><a name="l2h-209"><tt class="function">parse</tt></a></b>(<var>filename</var><big>[</big><var>, dir</var><big>]</big>) <dd> <P> This function will open file named <var>filename</var>, read and parse its content and return a string of resulting Python code. <P> If <var>dir</var> is specified, then the ultimate filename to be parsed is constructed by concatenating <var>dir</var> and <var>filename</var>, and the argument to <code>include</code> directive can be specified as a relative path. (Note that this is a simple concatenation, no path separator will be inserted if <var>dir</var> does not end with one). </dl> <P> <dl><dt><b><a name="l2h-210"><tt class="function">parsestring</tt></a></b>(<var>string</var>) <dd> <P> This function will parse contents of <var>string</var> and return a string of resulting Python code. <P> </dl> <P> <DIV CLASS="navigation"> <p><hr> <table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td><A href="pyapi-psp-syntax.html"><img src="icons/previous.png" border="0" height="32" alt="Previous Page" width="32"></A></td> <td><A href="pyapi-psp.html"><img src="icons/up.png" border="0" height="32" alt="Up One Level" width="32"></A></td> <td><A href="directives.html"><img src="icons/next.png" border="0" height="32" alt="Next Page" width="32"></A></td> <td align="center" width="100%">Mod_python Manual</td> <td><A href="contents.html"><img src="icons/contents.png" border="0" height="32" alt="Contents" width="32"></A></td> <td><img src="icons/blank.png" border="0" height="32" alt="" width="32"></td> <td><A href="genindex.html"><img src="icons/index.png" border="0" height="32" alt="Index" width="32"></A></td> </tr></table> <b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" href="pyapi-psp-syntax.html">4.9.1 PSP Syntax</A> <b class="navlabel">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" href="pyapi-psp.html">4.9 _psp - Python</A> <b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" href="directives.html">5. Apache Configuration Directives</A> <hr> <span class="release-info">Release 3.1.0a, documentation updated on August 26, 2003.</span> </DIV> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> </BODY> </HTML>