Web development with Python 3.1

[Dotan Cohen]

> I took a look a both yesterday. They are both generic text templating
> systems that seem to pretty much do the same thing. I suspect you will
> prefer Mako since it avoids duplicating Python's comtrol structures. But I
> think it worthwhile to look at both anyway since doing so will help to
> separate the concepts from the particular implementations.
>
> My take on them is this: when text mixes code that is meant to be
> interpreted and text data meant to be taken literally, some means must be
> devised to distinguish the two. In programs files, the code is left unquoted
> and the text data is quoted. In template files, the marking is reversed: the
> literal text is left unquoted and the code *is* quoted. In Mako, expressions
> are quoted with braces ({...}), single statements with '%' prefix, and
> multiple statements as well as Mako tags with <% ...>.
>

Thanks, Terry, that should save me some time.


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