Thank you very much for your prompt response. It looks like the file gluon/template.py does pull in some extra dependencies, however.
It tries to import restricted on line 20 and import globals on line 863. The restricted module dependency may be easy to remove, since it appears that it only uses it for raising exceptions. However, it looks like the Response object is used from the globals module. On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Jun 4, 7:58 pm, Ryan Seto <mr.werew...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I really like how elegant and simple it is to create views in web2py. > > Would it be possible to use the view/template engine in a standalone > > application? > > yes. > > you only need the file gluon/template.py > > look at the example inside. You only the render function. > > > > > I'm writing a desktop application to view formatted text, like > > markdown, using PyQT's QtWebKit to render the generated html, and I > > would like to integrate web2py's method for generating views into my > > project. > > > > I've been looking through web2py's source and the mailing list, and it > > seems that response.render( view_text, dict() ) might be the closest > > thing to what I'm looking for. However, it looks like there's a lot > > of dependencies wrapped around it and the objects weren't made to be > > used in the context of another application. > > > > If this is the case, would it make sense to compartmentalize the parts > > for rendering a view into it's own module so they can be used in a > > standalone application, similar to the dal? I would be willing to > > come up with a patch for this, if I could get some hints on where to > > start.
