I had been pleased with a little tweak on StaticFile that enabled me to
insert my site's stock header() and footer() around every plain html
file I had in a html/ directory under my site root.  I know Quixote
isn't geared toward separation-of-skills development, but it was a
convenient way to allow a non-coder to write up an arbitrary number of
docs in simple html and quickly load/update them on the site.  The tweak
breaks in 0.7a2 (scgi-1, apache-2.0.40), apparently because StaticFile
now returns a FileStream, and I'm not sure how to fix my code.

I'm relatively new to python and much newer to Quixote, so my apologies
if this keenly demonstrates my lack of clue. :(


Here's what had been working in 0.6.1:

class MyStaticFile (StaticFile):
    def __call__(self, request):
        contents = htmltext('')
        if self.mime_type == 'text/html':
            file_name = request.get_path()[1:]     # drop leading '/'
            contents += header(get_title_from_path(file_name))
            contents += htmltext(StaticFile.__call__(self, request))
            contents += footer()
        return contents


Then, in my top-level __init__.py, I could just:

for file, path in html_files:
    _q_exports.append(file)
    setattr(this_module, file, MyStaticFile(path, mime_type='text/html'))

...where html_files is from all the *.html paths under $SITEROOT/html.
With 0.7a2 any mozilla-1.5 calls to the html files hang, unless I
shift-reload, which results in a header-and-footer-only page, i.e. with
none of the appropriate page's html inserted between the header and
footer.

This was particularly nifty as the header function even spat out a