Re: HTML generation vs PSP vs Templating Engines

2005-11-20 Thread riplin
Using templates means that the code can work with different templates, and this should be seamless, it also means that different code can be used with the templates, for example if different languages are used. This seems to contradict your statement that you dislike 'embedding code or html

Re: HTML generation vs PSP vs Templating Engines

2005-11-19 Thread riplin
No templates, no python-like or special languages, only pure and simple python. You can embedd python into html or, if it better suits your programming style, you can embed html into python. Why don't you give it a try? I dislike embedding code or html in each other, apart from the

Re: HTML generation vs PSP vs Templating Engines

2005-11-19 Thread Luis M. Gonzalez
I meant that it is not strictly necessary to use templates in Karrigell, although you can use Cheetah if you want. I'm not used to templates mainly because I'm familiar with the way PHP works and, for simple dynamic sites like those I work on, this is the simpliest approach. Another reason is that

Re: HTML generation vs PSP vs Templating Engines

2005-11-19 Thread has
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dislike embedding code or html in each other, apart from the 'impurity' of mixing code and user interface it makes them inseparable. Using templates means that the code can work with different templates, and this should be seamless, it also means that different code

HTML generation vs PSP vs Templating Engines

2005-11-16 Thread pkassianidis
Hello everybody, I am in the process of writing my very first web application in Python, and I need a way to generate dynamic HTML pages with data from a database. I have to say I am overwhelmed by the plethora of different frameworks, templating engines, HTML generation tools etc that exist.

Re: HTML generation vs PSP vs Templating Engines

2005-11-16 Thread bruno at modulix
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I am in the process of writing my very first web application in Python, and I need a way to generate dynamic HTML pages with data from a database. (snip) After some thought I decided to leave the various frameworks aside for the time being and

Re: HTML generation vs PSP vs Templating Engines

2005-11-16 Thread Damjan
After some thought I decided to leave the various frameworks aside for the time being and use mod_python.publisher along with some means of generating HTML on the fly. I kind of like KID templates the most, you can easyly work with them in any HTML authoring software, they are easy to use

Re: HTML generation vs PSP vs Templating Engines

2005-11-16 Thread thakadu
I just do the following: I store the form data as a pickeled dictionary. Then I create my HTML form with something like this: HTMLout=HTMLBODY.. .. INPUT NAME=field1 value=%(field1)s INPUT NAME=field2 value=%(field2)s INPUT NAME=field3 value=%(field3)s''' where the field1, field2 etc

RE: HTML generation vs PSP vs Templating Engines

2005-11-16 Thread Sells, Fred
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