Studying the pyramid (python) and struggling with the @view_config decorator. Should it just work out of the box?

Question

I am still studying the pyramid, and I am at the point where I am trying to learn how to use decorators. Below is a copy of my test view.

from pyramid.response import Response from pyramid.view import view_config from pyramid.renderers import render_to_response def my_blog(request): return {'project':'tricky'} @view_config( renderer='templates/foo.pt' ) def foo_blog(request): return {'name':'tricky'} 

From what I can understand about the view_config decorator, it can be used to set application configurations without actually installing them in the configuration file. In the case of this example, I set the visualizer as /foo.pt templates. It never works.

However, if I install the renderer in the configuration file ( init .py) as such:

 config.add_route( 'foo_blog' , '/blog/{foo}' , view='tricky.views.Blog.blog.foo_blog' renderer='tricky:templates/mytemplate.pt' ) 

he will work.

I am doing something wrong, which prevents me from using the decorator. Thanks!

Answer 1

For the configurations added with @view_config to work, you need to call config.scan () at some point.