'self' not defined, jinja2, appengine - google-app-engine

Question

Error:
self.response.out.write(template.render(template_values)) NameError:
name 'self' is not defined
pertains to lines marked # ERROR, with other notes:
#!/usr/bin/env python27
import cgi
import webapp2
import jinja2
import time
import datetime
import urllib
#import cgitb; cgitb.enable()
import os
from google.appengine.ext import db
from google.appengine.api import users
from google.appengine.api import memcache
jinja_environment = jinja2.Environment(autoescape=True,
loader=jinja2.FileSystemLoader(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'templates')))
class Visitor(db.Model): # I still need this with jinja2, yes?
name = db.StringProperty(required=1)
mood = db.StringProperty(choices=["good","bad","fair"])
date = db.DateTimeProperty(auto_now_add=True)
class MainPage(webapp2.RequestHandler):
def get(self): # ERROR HERE
visitor_query = Visitor.all().order('-date') #not sure about query...need to get curent visitor's submitted form values (name, mood). no log-in in app.
visitor = visitor_query.fetch(1)
template_values = {
'visitor': visitor,
'url': url, #not sure how this applies, just following tutorial
'url_linktext': url_linktext,
}
localtime = time.localtime(time.time())
mon = localtime[1] # MONTH
h = localtime[3] # HOUR
span = "morning" if h == range(5,14) else "afternoon" if h == range(17,7) else "evening"
if mon <= 3:
var1 = "winter"
# more variables in if/elif statement here...I call these variables from index.html...
# name = self.request.get("name") # not sure if I need to define these variables here using jinja2...tutorial does not define entity properties in example.
# name = name.capitalize()
# mood = self.request.get("mood")
template = jinja_environment.get_template('index.html')
self.response.out.write(template.render(template_values)) # ERROR HERE
class Process(webapp2.RequestHandler):
def post(self):
name = self.request.get("name")
name = name.capitalize()
mood = self.request.get("mood")
message = Visitor(name=name, mood=mood)
if users.get_current_user():
message.name = users.get_current_user() #not sure if I need users.get_current...no log-in required
message.mood = self.request.get("mood")
message.put()
self.redirect("/")
app = webapp2.WSGIApplication([('/', MainPage)],
debug=True)
app.yaml:
application: emot
version: 1
runtime: python27
api_version: 1
threadsafe: true
handlers:
#- url: /stylesheets/ # I read no static files allowed with jinja2...not sure how I'll handle CSS...
# static_dir: stylesheets
- url: /.*
script: main.app
libraries:
- name: jinja2
version: latest
index.yaml (all of this works without jinja2...)
indexes:
- kind: Visitor
ancestor: yes
properties:
- name: name
- name: mood
- name: date
direction: desc
Also, I have alternately copied (not cut) jinja2 folder from g00gle_appengine/lib directory to my app directory folder, including just copying the "jinja" folder (as similar method worked using gdata atom & src...) I have also installed python-jinja2, which is located at: /usr/share/doc/python-jinja2
My index.html is in directory "templates" in my app directory. Thanks in advance for getting me going.

Answer 1

From the code you've posted, it looks like the erroring line of code (and the preceding few) aren't indented far enough.
The get method should be aligned as follows:
def get(self): # ERROR HERE
visitor_query = Visitor.all().order('-date') #not sure about query...need to get curent visitor's submitted form values (name, mood). no log-in in app.
visitor = visitor_query.fetch(1)
template_values = {
'visitor': visitor,
'url': url, #not sure how this applies, just following tutorial
'url_linktext': url_linktext,
}
localtime = time.localtime(time.time())
mon = localtime[1] # MONTH
h = localtime[3] # HOUR
span = "morning" if h == range(5,14) else "afternoon" if h == range(17,7) else "evening"
if mon <= 3:
var1 = "winter"
# more variables in if/elif statement here...I call these variables from index.html...
# name = self.request.get("name") # not sure if I need to define these variables here using jinja2...tutorial does not define entity properties in example.
# name = name.capitalize()
# mood = self.request.get("mood")
template = jinja_environment.get_template('index.html')
self.response.out.write(template.render(template_values)) # ERROR HERE