Re: Basic HTML helpers

2010-01-13 Thread James Gardner
Just in case it is causing confusion it was Jonathan who responded rather than me. We are both J. Gardner but I'll still be posting as James Gardner from ja...@pythonweb.org. Jonathan, perhaps you could change your subscription settings to use your name as the name that gets displayed rather

Re: Routes 2 spec

2008-01-15 Thread James Gardner
Hi all, My current thinking is that Routes is far too complicated, even this new spec is too complicated. All it needs to do is convert a URL to a routing variable dictionary and back again. This can be automated to a degree by specifying variables in a URL string and for more complex cases t

Re: Cleaning some house of imports and one letters

2007-12-18 Thread James Gardner
Mike Orr wrote: >> g should be renamed persist. The interesting thing about g isn't that it is >> global, rather that the variables attached to it persist across requests. > > The interesting thing about 'g' is, um... is there anything > interesting about it? > I've found two rare cases for it.

Re: ToscaWidgets vs FormEncode

2007-10-23 Thread James Gardner
Hi Mike, > So I think the book should at least say "Look online for an > alternative form building strategy using ToscaWidgets", and the > Official Docs or Cookbook should have a complete howto covering as > much of the TW state-of-the-art as is known at the time. I think you are right - the boo

Re: Virtual Python environments

2007-09-30 Thread James Gardner
Hi Philip, >> I've been recommending workingenv, and James Gardener has started >> promoting zc.buildout. > > Has he? Only to Mike but I do think it could be the best long-term solution. There are a few rough edges at the moment though. >> I'd like to see one strategy laid out in the tutorial