Walter Dörwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Chris Pearl wrote: > > > Are there Python tools to help webmasters manage static websites? > > > > [...] > > You might give XIST a try: http://www.livinglogic.de/Python/xist/ > > Basically XIST is an HTML generator, that can be extended to generate > the HTML you need for your site. The website > http://www.livinglogic.de/Python/ itself was generated with XIST. You > can find the source for the website here: > http://www.livinglogic.de/viewcvs/index.cgi/LivingLogic/WWW-Python/site/ > > Hope that helps! > > Bye, > Walter Dörwald
1. If the static page can be autogenerated (e.g., from a data file or from an analysis), the best bet is to just write the html directly. Typically do as triple quoted text blocks with named variable substitutions, then print them with the substitutions filled. The chunks are dictated by the structure of the problem (e.g., functions for beginning and end of html page, for beginning and end of a form, for repeating rows in a table, etc.) Just structure the app reasonably and put in the chnks where needed. NOTE - When I first moved from Perl to Python, I thought I'd need CGI.pm, so I did cgipm.py: http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/comp/index.html http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/comp/cgipm/doc/manual.html However, I (and others in this newsgroup) recommend the write-directly approach instead. 2. If there must be human-in-the-loop, then it is good to use a markup language which can be converted to html (or to other backends). Perrl's POD format is one, and I've done that as a Pdx. http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/comp/index.html http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/comp/pdx/doc/manual.html -- Harry George PLM Engineering Architecture -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
