John M. Gabriele wrote: > I'm putting together a small site using Python and cgi. > > (I'm pretty new to this, but I've worked a little with > JSP/servlets/Java before.) > > Almost all pages on the site will share some common (and > static) html, however, they'll also have dynamic aspects. > I'm guessing that the common way to build sites like this > is to have every page (which contains active content) be > generated by a cgi script, but also have some text files > hanging around containing incomplete html fragments which > you read and paste-in as-needed (I'm thinking: > header.html.txt, footer.html.txt, and so on). > > Is that how it's usually done? If not, what *is* the > usual way of handling this?
I don't know if it's the *usual* way, but you could give XIST a try (http://www.livinglogic.de/Python/xist). It was developed for exactly this purpose: You implement reusable HTML fragments in Python and you can use any kind of embedded dynamic language (PHP and JSP are supported out of the box). Bye, Walter Dörwald -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
