[Baypiggies] Output generation - (string operations/triple quote/template)

[Tung Wai Yip]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:55:31 -0800, Chris Clark <Chris.Clark at ingres.com>  
wrote:
> After lots of experimentation I ended up using
> http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/htmltemplate.html - one
> thing that annoys me slightly about HTMLTemplate is that you have to
> write code to populate the template. I was able to get around that in a
> few projects by writing a generic routine to take in a dictionary (like
> most templating systems). For the few times that I couldn't use my
> generic dict system I ended up with a routine (or routines) that have 1
> line per item to be replaced in the template. For large numbers of
> elements this was easy to maintain, if you have very few elements this
> actual is frustrating and you wonder why you used a template :-)

> Chris

Hi Chris,

I'm a happy user of HTMLTemplate too. Is your enhancement generic enough  
to contribute back to the project?

Wai Yip