Comments on: The war over templating

By: Cliff Wells

Cliff Wells — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:45:17 +0000

And yet one more way: your markup *is* code (or vice-versa I suppose).

[disclaimer: blatant self-promotion]

By: Van Gale

Van Gale — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

I’m a huge fan of both PyMeld and Quixote PTL. I dislike inline code, but admit I haven’t developed a full-blown webapp (with session, logins, features customized per user) with something like PyMeld… so this view could change :)Anyway, in a project I’m just starting, I would like to provide flexibility for plugging in any Python templating system. I’ll make sure to have working PyMeld, Cheetah, and PTL examples in the distribution.

By: Juri Pakaste

Juri Pakaste — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

I was pretty sure that real code inlined in templates is the best way(especially for my own projects), but ZPT showed me that maybe it’s possible to design a templating system that’s powerful without embedding significant amounts of code. RoundUp uses it quite successfully outside of Zope, too, I believe.Of course, Python doesn’t really shine when inlining, the syntax does get in the way there.

By: deelan

deelan — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

I’m currently looking into Cheetah template: http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/ you can use together with WebWare or separately as a vanilla template engine to generate HTML/XML/text. The syntax is terse and almost pythonic (except for that “end block” statements). With WebWare you also get PSP (Python Server Pages) the IN-LINE choice.

By: misuba

misuba — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Maybe that guy would get paid more if he learned some Perl… or maybe he’s not getting paid at all, he’s using his off time to try and use your code for something, and you’re wasting his time.How many people do you want to drive away from your code?Anyway, why not provide both choices?

By: Hamish Lawson

Hamish Lawson — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

If it’s templating for HTML/XML, then a third approach is to have the template externally transformed by a real language, the parts to be manipulated being identified by id attributes. This is the approach exemplified by PyMeld (http://www.entrian.com/PyMeld/).