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On Nov 5, 5:16*pm, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.
42.desthuilli...@websiteburo.invalid> wrote:
> rustom a écrit :
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>
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> > On Nov 5, 2:23 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.
> > 42.desthuilli...@websiteburo.invalid> wrote:
> >> rustom a écrit :
>
> >>> On Oct 30, 6:23 pm, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> The point is that I want to use only _Python_ features, not
> >>>> Django/Mako/whatever features.
> >>> Pure python has a builtin templating system -- its called *%
> >> Poor man's template... It only do variable substitutions - no branching
> >> nor iteration (and let's not talk about macros, inclusions, filters etc).
>
> > I realised that that link
> >http://simonwillison.net/2003/Jul/28/simpleTemplates/
> > was written in 2003
>
> > Subsequently python has sprouted something explicitly templateish
> >http://docs.python.org/library/strin...mplate-strings
>
> Still poor man's template. Just don't hope to do any realworld web
> templating with this.

This is said in the context of some of Dotan's quotes eg.

> I am not a programmer by trade, only by hobby.
> I want to learn Python not Django
etc

Python is generally imperative.
Templates are by and large declarative.

To get this 'Aha' across to him (remember he said hes a mechanical
engineer) is (IMHO) more important than converting him to some moral
high ground of reusability or some other nice software engineering
jargon.

mario ruggier wrote:
> With respect to to original question regarding web frameworks +
> database and Python 3, all the following have been available for
> Python 3 since the day Python 3.0 was released:
>
> QP, a Web Framework
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/qp/
>
> Durus, a Python Object Database (the "default" in qp, for user
> sessions, etc)
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Durus/
>
> Evoque, state-of-the-art templating engine
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/evoque/
> (this one is available for py3.0 since a little later, 21-jan-2009)
>
> All the above also runs on python 2.4 (thru to python 3)
>
> For the record, you may see the list of all pypi packages availabe for
> Python 3 at:
> http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=...show=all&c=533
>
> m.
Thanks for those links Mario - I'll check them out asap..

Regards,
Alan