>> While I know that to be true in the general sense, from what I've >> looked at Django and other frameworks it seems that the web frameworks >> push the coder to use templates, not letting him near the HTML. > > Well... there must be a reason, for sure... No ? >
ֹYes, but I don't like it. >> Django and the other frameworks seem to >> force the user to use templates. > > Not at all. Nothing prevents you from shooting yourself in the foot and > generating HTML "by hand" in your view functions (or request handler methods > etc, depending on the framework). How is this done in Django, then? > This is just plain stupid wrt/ > readability, maintainability, reuse and whatnot, but hey, if you want to > waste your time, please do. As far as i'm concerned, I'm very happy to let > the HTML coder write the HTML part and the application programmer write the > applicative part - even when I end up wearing both caps. > I've done stupider things. >> I just want the functions, and to >> print the HTML as stdout to the browser making the request. I had to >> settle on PHP to do this, > > Why so ? Almost any programming language can do CGI. And I settled on PHP because it does what I need. However, I would prefer to move it to Python for the benefit of using the same language in the different places that I code for (such as personal applications for the desktop, pyqt). -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
