pystache 0.4.1

Mustache for Python

Inspired by ctemplate and et, Mustache is a framework-agnostic way to render logic-free views.

As ctemplates says, “It emphasizes separating logic from presentation: it is impossible to embed application logic in this template language.”

Pystache is a Python implementation of Mustache. Pystache works on–

• Python 2.4
• Python 2.5
• Python 2.6
• Python 2.7

Pystache is semantically versioned: http://semver.org.

Logo: David Phillips - http://davidphillips.us/

Documentation

The different Mustache tags are documented at mustache(5).

Install It

pip install pystache

Use It

>>> import pystache
>>> pystache.render('Hi {{person}}!', {'person': 'Mom'})
'Hi Mom!'

You can also create dedicated view classes to hold your view logic.

Here’s your simple.py:

import pystache
class Simple(pystache.View):
    def thing(self):
        return "pizza"

Then your template, simple.mustache:

Hi {{thing}}!

Pull it together:

>>> Simple().render()
'Hi pizza!'

Test It

nose works great!

pip install nose
cd pystache
nosetests

Depending on your Python version and nose installation, you may need to type, for example

nosetests-2.4

Mailing List

As of Nov 26, 2011, there’s a mailing list, [e-mail].

Archive: http://librelist.com/browser/pystache/

Note: There’s a bit of a delay in seeing the latest emails appear in the archive.

Author

context = { 'author': 'Chris Wanstrath', 'email': '[e-mail]' }
pystache.render("{{author}} :: {{email}}", context)

History

0.4.1 (2012-03-25)

• Added support for Python 2.4. [wangtz, jvantuyl]

0.4.0 (2011-01-12)

• Add support for nested contexts (within template and view)
• Add support for inverted lists
• Decoupled template loading

0.3.1 (2010-05-07)

• Fix package

0.3.0 (2010-05-03)

• View.template_path can now hold a list of path
• Add {{& blah}} as an alias for {{{ blah }}}
• Higher Order Sections
• Inverted sections

0.2.0 (2010-02-15)

• Bugfix: Methods returning False or None are not rendered
• Bugfix: Don’t render an empty string when a tag’s value is 0. [enaeseth]
• Add support for using non-callables as View attributes. [joshthecoder]
• Allow using View instances as attributes. [joshthecoder]
• Support for Unicode and non-ASCII-encoded bytestring output. [enaeseth]
• Template file encoding awareness. [enaeseth]

0.1.1 (2009-11-13)

• Ensure we’re dealing with strings, always
• Tests can be run by executing the test file directly

0.1.0 (2009-11-12)

• First release