[Tutor] PHP

[wesley chun]

> Straightaway, i was impressed by one powerful property; the ability to
> imbed php into a html webpage, and switch into and out of php as needed,
> and let normal ssi and html and css work the rest of the time, outside
> of php. all I have to do is start the php block with
> <?php # start the php block of code
> write code;
> ?> # end the php block
> and continue in html. What a BLOODY shame we can't do that in python,
> which is otherwise awesome and superior in every way i can thus far evaluate.


sure you can! however you have to use a web templating system, and
there are many in Python (Mako, Genshi, Myghty, Kid, Cheetah, Jinja,
Django templates, etc.). some examples here:

Mako:
http://www.makotemplates.org/docs/syntax.html#python-blocks

Genshi:
http://genshi.edgewall.org/wiki/Documentation/templates.html

Myghty:
http://www.myghty.org/docs/embedding.html

it is not built-in to the language because Python is more
general-purpose, so you have to import those packages to use them.

hope this helps!
-- wesley
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