While I generally agree that it is a slow down in writing code, I think that it has the positive effect of making really easy to extract parts of the application as pluggable apps as their templates already refer to a specific package. That provides a consistent behaviour between the templates you load inside your application and the template you load in partials or pluggable apps.
At least if we consider .templates.something as APPPACKAGE.templates.something. I would be more in favor of .templates.something being an alias to os.basedir(Controller.__module__.__file__)/templates/something but in that case we would break the assumption of TG apps having all their templates inside apppackage/templates On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Christoph Zwerschke <[email protected]> wrote: > It sometimes bothers me how often the package name of a TG project is > repeated in a controller module, both in import statements like "from > mylongpackagename.model import MyModelClass" and in expose decorators like > @expose("mylongpackagename.**templates.mypage"). > > So I thought about changing the quickstart templates to use relative > imports, but I found two problems: > > 1) Relative imports do not work for Genshi (generally dotted notation) in > @expose any more (they used to work in TG1), so we would first need to add > that feature back. > > 2) I read e.g. in PEP8 that relative imports are considered bad practice, > not only the old implicit relative imports (which is obvious), but even the > newer explicit relative imports. Unfortunately no rationale is given, I can > only guess that it's about "explicit better than implicit" (since explicit > relative imports are only explicit about being relative, the location is > still implicit). I'm not sure whether "explicit better than implicit" > overtrumps DRY here. And I don't understand why explicit relative imports > have been introduced in Python 2 and not been removed from Python 3 if they > are really so bad. > > Opinions? > > -- Christoph > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TurboGears Trunk" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > turbogears-trunk+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<turbogears-trunk%[email protected]> > . > To post to this group, send email to > turbogears-trunk@googlegroups.**com<[email protected]> > . > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/**group/turbogears-trunk<http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-trunk> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Trunk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-trunk. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
