Re: recommended way of generating HTML from Python

2005-02-22 Thread paul koelle
Michele Simionato wrote: Also, one could argue that the designer should not get in touch with the HTML, but just play with the CSS. Finally, you can achieve separation between logic and presentation just putting the routines generating the HTML pages in a separate module, no need to use a differe

Re: recommended way of generating HTML from Python

2005-02-21 Thread John J. Lee
Matt Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Agreed. Although I would go further and say that it's important to > choose a templating system that allows the Python developer to annotate > XHTML templates using **valid XML**, i.e. no "for x in y" loops, no "if > foo" conditionals, no "i = 0" var

Re: recommended way of generating HTML from Python

2005-02-21 Thread has
Kent Johnson wrote: > Michele Simionato wrote: > > The problem is a problem of standardization, indeed. There plenty of > > recipes to > > do the same job, I just would like to use a blessed one (I am teaching > > a Python > > course and I do not know what to recommend to my students). > > Why not

RE: recommended way of generating HTML from Python

2005-02-21 Thread Robert Brewer
Michele Simionato wrote: > The problem is a problem of standardization, indeed. > There are plenty of recipes to do the same job, I just > would like to use a blessed one (I am teaching a Python > course and I do not know what to recommend to my students). Wouldn't we *all* like all of our problem

Re: recommended way of generating HTML from Python

2005-02-21 Thread Michele Simionato
Kent Johnson: >I've written web pages this way (using a pretty nice Java HTML generation package) >and I don't >recommend it. In my experience, this approach has several drawbacks: >- as soon as the web page gets at all complex, the conceptual shift from HTML to >code and back is >difficult. >- It

Re: recommended way of generating HTML from Python

2005-02-21 Thread Matt Goodall
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 07:36 -0500, Kent Johnson wrote: > Michele Simionato wrote: > > The problem is a problem of standardization, indeed. There plenty of > > recipes to > > do the same job, I just would like to use a blessed one (I am teaching > > a Python > > course and I do not know what to reco

Re: recommended way of generating HTML from Python

2005-02-21 Thread Kent Johnson
Michele Simionato wrote: The problem is a problem of standardization, indeed. There plenty of recipes to do the same job, I just would like to use a blessed one (I am teaching a Python course and I do not know what to recommend to my students). Why not teach your students to use a template system?

Re: recommended way of generating HTML from Python

2005-02-20 Thread Michele Simionato
The problem is a problem of standardization, indeed. There plenty of recipes to do the same job, I just would like to use a blessed one (I am teaching a Python course and I do not know what to recommend to my students). FWIW, here is a my version of the recipe (stripped down to the bare essentials

Re: recommended way of generating HTML from Python

2005-02-20 Thread has
xtian wrote: > Stan (part of nevow, which is part of twisted) is a nice python syntax > for building HTML [...] > I don't know how detachable it is from the rest of nevow. I'd assume it > wouldn't be too difficult to implement in a standalone fashion. FWIW I whipped up a simple self-contained Stan

Re: recommended way of generating HTML from Python

2005-02-20 Thread xtian
Stan (part of nevow, which is part of twisted) is a nice python syntax for building HTML - I like the use of () and [] to separate attributes from sub-elements. For example: class Greeter(rend.Page): def greet(self, context, data): return random.choice(["Hello", "Greetings", "Hi"]), "

Re: recommended way of generating HTML from Python

2005-02-20 Thread Pierre Quentel
Here are a couple of pointers. I agree with Michele that it would be nice to have some kind of standardization. Maybe this would be worth a post to the Web-SIG ? - I posted a 70-line recipe on the Python Cookbook, a sort of poor man's HTMLGen called HTMLTags http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo

Re: recommended way of generating HTML from Python

2005-02-20 Thread Fernando Perez
Michele Simionato wrote: > What is the recommended way of generating HTML from Python? I know of > HTMLGen and of > few recipes in the Cookbook, but is there something which is more or > less standard? I'm also an htmlgen user, but it's getting a bit long in the tooth, and the installation is not

Re: recommended way of generating HTML from Python

2005-02-20 Thread Michele Simionato
Just to clarify, before people start pointing out their preferred templating language: I am NOT asking for a template system. I am asking for something on the lines of HTMLGen, where you just use pure Python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: recommended way of generating HTML from Python

2005-02-20 Thread Jarek Zgoda
Michele Simionato napisaƂ(a): What is the recommended way of generating HTML from Python? I know of HTMLGen and of few recipes in the Cookbook, but is there something which is more or less standard? Also, are there plans to include a module for HTML generation in the standard library? I really woul