On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 13:12:14 +0100, Fuzzyman wrote: > On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 03:10:07 -0400, "John M. Gabriele" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I'm putting together a small site using Python and cgi. >> >>(I'm pretty new to this, but I've worked a little with >>JSP/servlets/Java before.) >> >>Almost all pages on the site will share some common (and >>static) html, however, they'll also have dynamic aspects. >>I'm guessing that the common way to build sites like this >>is to have every page (which contains active content) be >>generated by a cgi script, but also have some text files >>hanging around containing incomplete html fragments which >>you read and paste-in as-needed (I'm thinking: >>header.html.txt, footer.html.txt, and so on). >> >>Is that how it's usually done? If not, what *is* the >>usual way of handling this? >> > > Having a template and inserting dynamic values into it is very common. > > You'll have more luck looking for 'python templating systems'. > > I use a module called 'embedded code' - which is part of firedrop by > Hans Nowak. See http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/firedrop2/ > > Popular templating engines include Cheetah and TAL. > > You can also roll your own basic one using the string method > ``replace``.
Thanks for the reply Fuzzy. I'm going to try rolling my own. I found this *great* article: http://www.devshed.com/index2.php?option=content&task=view&id=198&pop=1&page=0&hide_js=1 and it shows pretty much exactly what I think I want: separate html files containing fragments of a complete page, then some python code to read in the html fragment, and replace your generated code with some placeholder. > > I'm pretty sure their is an entry on the Python.org WIKI about > templating. Whoops. I ended up hitting this page first: http://wiki.python.org/moin/CgiScripts and now I'm sticking with it. :) I like CGI. I want to keep things as simple as possible. :) ---John > > All the best, > > Fuzzy > http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python > > >>Thanks, >>---John -- --- if contacting via email, remove zees --- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
