On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 18:06 -0800, Margie wrote: > Ah, right - of course. Thanks, Malcom. > > This is only slightly related, but perhaps you have a good answer. > Are most people using the standard template language?
Not sure how we'd measure "most" people. But you could safely assume a few thousand people are, at least. It's the default templating system with Django, after all. > I know there > are some others out there (though I can't remeber the names offhand). > As a python programmer I find using the template language to be > somewhat unintuitive. Would like something more python-like. The template language isn't designed to be Python-like. Or, rather, it's intentionally designed to not allow a bunch of Python-like features. The general rule is not to allow "programming in templates". You do all the heavy lifting to create the bag of information you want to present in the Python view. The templating language is a very simple description language for dumping that bag of information into a string. The template language is designed to be easy to learn for designers who have to learn "yet another language". Python is not a language for designers, so that wouldn't be a good choice. In larger organisations using Django (including the place where it was created), the people creating templates and the people writing Python code are quite separate (although the former often end up learning the latter so that they can build their own Django sites and put the rest of us to shame). Of course, the line's a bit fuzzy as to what is simple and what isn't and, since custom template tags and filters are both permitted and encouraged, there's really no limit as to what you can do. > Of > course, I know that it is good to keep code out of the html, so making > it hard to use is perhaps a good thing. But is this the template > language that python programmers use, or is there something that folks > like better? I personally don't put myself into a box and label it 'Python programmer'. I can program in Python, but I also program in other languages, whether they be domain specific (a la Django's templating language) or more full-featured. :-) Use whatever templating language suits your requirements. As you note, there are only about 183 choices out there, from full-on Python (e.g. Cheetah) to Django-like-but-allowing-Python and everything in between. Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
