PHP + TinyButStrong Python replacement

[Mike Driscoll]

On May 7, 6:12 am, pistacchio <pistacc... at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi! i'm a php user and a python programmer. i'd love to use python for
> my server side needs but i can't seem to find what i'm looking for. for
> most of my php work i use mysql and tinyButStrong
> (http://www.tinybutstrong.com) which is a very lightweight template
> engine that offers powerful functionalities. you insert TBS tags in web
> pages like:
>
> <div align="center" class="title-page"> [var.x] </div>
>
> and it replaces [var.x] with the value of global variable x. it also
> makes blocks (and nested blocks) easy to implement:
>
> <p class="text-example2"> [blk1;block=begin] [blk1.val]<br>
> [blk1;block=end] </p>
>
> in the previous code it cycles throu all the values of the array blk1.
>
> it does many more things, like htlm escaping, url and js encoding etc,
> conditional displaying etc, but it is not more confusing that inserting
> pieces of code into the HTML (aka: littering the code and kissing
> goodbye to the code/presentation separation). it comes in the form of a
> single file with a single class that you can easily include in the code
> and go.
>
> now, i've searched the net and it seems full of python-based frameworks
> for doing server side scripting and templating, but none that suits my
> needs.
>
>     1. i like writing code and i like control. i mean, open up the
> simplest text editor and write in it. i don't want something that is
> command-line driven or that writes code for me like ">>>
> makePagesFromThisDatabase()".
>     2. i want something very lightweight. i don't want dozen of options,
> pre-made blogging parts ecc. i just need a good non invasive template
> engine and the basic functions for server side scripting, like session
> managing, request parsing, functions to manipulate html code (encodings etc)
>     3. i don't want to beg my hosting provider to install the libraries.
> a simple include file should do the work.
>     4. object oriented programming is not required (better: i prefer
> plain old procedural programming).
>
> any help? thanks in advance

Did you look at TurboGears or Django? TG uses Kid in the 1.x series
and Genshi in 2.x (I think) for templating purposes. There's also
Cheetah, one of the more powerful Python templating engines out there.

http://genshi.edgewall.org/
http://www.kid-templating.org/
http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/
http://turbogears.org/

Maybe those links will get you going.

Mike