[Omaha.pm] Fwd: [Templates] Python and TT

Jay Hannah jay at jays.net
Mon Mar 10 20:51:31 PDT 2008


Well, I'll be...

You can do Template Toolkit in Python now...

What WILL they think of next?   :)

j



Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Sean McAfee" <eefacm at gmail.com>
> Date: March 10, 2008 8:05:49 PM CDT
> To: "Sean Allen" <sean at ardishealth.com>
> Cc: templates at template-toolkit.org
> Subject: Re: [Templates] Python and TT
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Sean Allen <sean at ardishealth.com>  
> wrote:
> We are getting ready to embark on porting a bunch of old code ( and
> several hundred TT templates ) to Python  and plan on using template-
> python to ease everything along. Anyone else but in any serious work
> with the python version of TT? If yes, do you have any gotchas to
> share that we should be aware of ahead of time?
>
> As the implementor of template-python, I'm probably the person with  
> most
> serious work under my belt--the most that I know of, anyway.  While  
> I haven't yet attempted to convert any sizeable Perl-TT project to  
> Python, I did document every potential gotcha I could think of in  
> the file README.python, located at the top of the Python source  
> distribution.  I'd encourage you to read that file carefully.   
> Other than that, all of the inline POD documentation from the Perl  
> source code has been carried over into the Python source code,  
> suitably translated into the Python paradigm.  It can be read  
> either by browsing the source code, or (as noted in README.python)  
> by the built-in help feature of the interactive Python  
> interpreter.  For example:
>
> >>> import template.stash
> >>> help(template.stash.Stash)
> ... documentation for the Stash class ...
>
> If you come across any problems I didn't foresee, I'd be happy to  
> help you resolve them.  You can contact me privately, or--more  
> preferably--bring up any issues here on the mailing list.
>
>
> --Sean
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