[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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