[Zope] How to use DocumentTemplate custom formats from Python?

[Hamish Lawson]

I wrote:

> I'm using DocumentTemplate from Python (not in Zope) and I want to
> use a custom format 'javascript_quote' that I've written.

Kapil Thangavelu wrote:

> you should implement a formating function and register it with
> special_format.
> for examples of both look near the end /DocumentTemplate/DT_Var.py

Thanks. I did as below, which worked. Is that the official way? - I
couldn't see any dedicated function to register a format.

    DT_Var.special_formats['javascript_quote'] = javascript_quote

Hamish Lawson




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