On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Colin <colin.morr...@gmail.com> wrote: > After struggling with Django's templating language for a while, I > decided I wanted to switch to something with a bit more power. In > particular, I liked what I saw of Mako (being able to instantiate new > variables, and write functions for subroutines like making a row or > something). > > After some googling, I found the "django-mako" plugin (http:// > code.google.com/p/django-mako/w/list), but installing it caused any > attempts to run my server (using python manage.py runserver) to crash, > with an error message along the lines of "second argument of putenv > must be a string, not None". This was even _without_ django-mako > included in my MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES, which I found a bit odd. > > I went back and looked at the plugin, and it looks like it hasn't been > updated in a couple of years, so I'm wondering if it's just outdated. > I believe it installed an older version of Django when I installed it, > so it may just have been that some features that I was using in my > project weren't compatible with whatever version it pulled in. > > Can anyone recommend an alternative way to integrate mako templating? > Or any other templating language that's a bit looser in allowing a bit > of logic to mix in with the presentation layer?
If you're using Django from SVN trunk, there have been some recent changes that might help: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/#using-an-alternative-template-language This approach should allow you define a Template class and a template Loader class that Django can use wherever it expects to see a Django template. I don't know of anyone that has used this technique to use Mako templates, but I am aware of people that have used it for Jinja2. Yours, Russ Magee %-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
