There are 2 interesting aspects from Luis's blogger post: - to use with, classes need to consider contexts; - the (to me, at least) interesting example of ASP.NET's xmlwriter class (generating SVG dynamically) is... .NET specific; I'm off busy looking for a python portable idiom to use in place of his last example...
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:43 PM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > > interesting. > > On Jul 13, 1:52 pm, Yarko Tymciurak <yark...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:25 AM, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> > wrote: > > > > > Functionally you can achieve the same, as you know, with > > > > > FORM( > > > DIV( > > > INPUT(_type='submit') , > > > _class='test'), > > > _action='',_method='post') > > > > > Syntactically I do not think it is possible to implement the syntax > > > you suggest because there is no "with" in Python. > > > > Actually, there is: PEP 343 introduced it. As of Python 2.5, it's > > available with: > > > > from __future__ import with_statement; > > > > As of Python 2.6 "with" and "as" are always keywords. > > > > Check out *Writing Context > > Managers*< > http://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/2.6.html#new-26-context-managers>and > > *The contextlib > > module*< > http://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/2.6.html#new-module-contextlib> > > . > > > > - Yarko > > > > > > > > > Massimo > > > > > On Jul 13, 11:12 am, "mr.freeze" <nat...@freezable.com> wrote: > > > > I'm a .net developer by trade. I embed IronPython into a lot of my > > > > apps. One nice thing I can do with it is build XML using the 'with' > > > > statement. > > >http://langexplr.blogspot.com/2009/02/writing-xml-with-ironpython-xml. > .. > > > > > > How hard would this be to implement a similar context protocol for > > > > web2py's HTML helpers? This is what I am picturing: > > > > > > with FORM(_action='',_method='post'): > > > > with DIV(_class='test'): > > > > INPUT(_type='submit') > > > > > > Would produce this: > > > > > > <form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="" method="post"> > > > > <div class="test"> > > > > <input type="submit" /> > > > > </div> > > > > </form> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
