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diff --git a/docs/narr/project.rst b/docs/narr/project.rst index 4c19982d6..9451f41b1 100644 --- a/docs/narr/project.rst +++ b/docs/narr/project.rst @@ -871,18 +871,17 @@ specification` that specifies the ``mytemplate.pt`` file within the ``templates`` directory of the ``myproject`` package. The asset specification could have also been specified as ``myproject:templates/mytemplate.pt``; the leading package name and colon is -optional. The template file it actually points to is a :term:`Chameleon` ZPT -template file. +optional. The template file pointed to is a :term:`Chameleon` ZPT +template file (``templates/my_template.pt``). This view callable function is handed a single piece of information: the :term:`request`. The *request* is an instance of the :term:`WebOb` ``Request`` class representing the browser's request to our server. -This view returns a dictionary. When this view is invoked, a -:term:`renderer` converts the dictionary returned by the view into HTML, and -returns the result as the :term:`response`. This view is configured to -invoke a renderer which uses a :term:`Chameleon` ZPT template -(``templates/my_template.pt``). +This view is configured to invoke a :term:`renderer` on a template. The +dictionary the view returns (on line 6) provides the value the renderer +substitutes into the template when generating HTML. The renderer then +returns the HTML in a :term:`response`. See :ref:`views_which_use_a_renderer` for more information about how views, renderers, and templates relate and cooperate. @@ -978,7 +977,7 @@ named ``views`` instead of within a single ``views.py`` file, you might: - *Move* the existing ``views.py`` file to a file inside the new ``views`` directory named, say, ``blog.py``. Because the ``templates`` directory remains in the ``myproject`` package, the template :term:`asset - specification`s in ``blog.py`` must now be fully qualified with the + specification` values in ``blog.py`` must now be fully qualified with the project's package name (``myproject:templates/blog.pt``). You can then continue to add view callable functions to the ``blog.py`` |