nontemplate 0.13

Nontemplate is not a Templating Language

For more information, see <http://code.zoic.org/nontemplate/>.

Summary

• NonTemplate allows you to generate simple XML output directly in your Python code with a minimum of syntactic noise.

• It uses the with statement introduced in Python 2.6 to ensure that once a tag is opened, it will be closed.

• Python code and template codes can be interleaved naturally, without resorting to restrictive language constructions. Your favourite debugger can see, and set breakpoints in, every level of your template.

• 100% pure Python (>= 2.6), and it works just fine in Python 3.0 as well.

• Performance is comparable to the commonly used templating languages and is better than most.

• Asynchronous use is easy: NonTemplate is happy reading from iterables and writing to IO streams. This means you can start sending XHTML to your clients while your database is still retrieving rows …

Example

import nontemplate

D = nontemplate.Document(doctype=nontemplate.doctype.html_2_0)

with D.html():
    D._comment("this is a test")
    D._comment("this --> is too")
    D._emit("<!-- testing & < > emit -->\n")
    with D.head():
        D.title()("foo")
    with D.body():
        with D.h1(id="foo"):
            D._text("This is a <foo> & test")
        with D.table(_class="cool"):
            with D.tbody():
                for row in range(1,3):
                    with D.tr():
                        for col in range(1,3):
                            D.td()("%d,%d" % (row,col))