On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 20:57:56 -0500, Steve Holden wrote: > John M. Gabriele wrote: >> [snip] >> >> Is that how it's usually done? If not, what *is* the >> usual way of handling this? >> > There are a million ways to solve this particular problem, despite > Python's "TSBOAPOOOWTDI" (see "import this") philosophy (because the > philosophy is addressing primitive programming rather than application > frameworks).
Yes. :) > You could do something as simple as writing a module "webPage" that > defines a function page(path, content) that does something along the > lines of: > > def page(path, content): > return """\ > <html> > <title>If you want titles, add another argument</title> > </head> > <body> > <this would be code to build a nav bar, omitting a hypertext link for > the path given as an argument - I'm just ignoring it in this example> > %s > </body> > </html> > """ % content Ah yes, I see. If the content is completely static, you can use a text file (html fragment) and just read it and paste it in, but for fragments that are *mostly* static, I really like that idea to use a module as you suggest. > [snip] > > Hope this gives you a few ideas. This problem has been considered by > many people, but clearly no outstanding solution has yet been devised, > otherwise we'd all be using it. > > regards > Steve Thanks Steve! ---John -- --- if contacting via email, remove zees --- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
