On Jun 30, 1:19 pm, Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 30, 10:57 am, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Some (if not most) templating systems use their own mini-language to > > handle presentation logic. > > IMHO this is the funniest (worst) part of all this 'templating' > buss :) > It reminds me the good old slogan: "Have you invented your own GUI > library yet?" > > > > > The meme "thou shall not mix domain logic with presentation" is very > > often misunderstood as "you must not have anything else than html in > > templates", which is just plain non-sense. Even declarative templating > > systems (cf Has's post) require some special (ie: non standard) stuff to > > work. > > > > Or could it just be that > > > this is a *good* way to mix HTML and Python, and there are other ways > > > which may be bad? > > > Bingo. > > Then what is so *good* about it, why embedding HTML into Python is not > good?
Because _typically_ a web template consists of mostly HTML, with relatively little presentational logic and (ideally) no business logic. Now, if all one wants to do is a quick and dirty way to, say, view a log file in the browser, a separate template is probably an overkill; there's nothing wrong with something like "for line in logfile: print cgi.escape(line.strip()) + '<BR>'". It's a matter of relative frequencies which language is the embedded one. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
