On Dec 19, 2007 9:10 AM, Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Mike Orr wrote:
> > On Dec 19, 2007 8:37 AM, Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> pylons.c is just a little odd -- if we could change the render function
> >> to just take substitution variables as keyword arguments then I
> >> personally would just stop using pylons.c, and probably be happier for
> >> it. Right now I guess I have to do variables=dict(...), which isn't
> >> horrible but doesn't look pretty for such a common construct.
> >
> > If you really really want **variables, we can do that. But that will
> > prevent us from passing arbitrary rendering args to the underlying
> > engine. Also, it would make render() have a substantially different
> > signature from Renderer.render(). Unless you're changing your mind
> > about that too.
>
> Maybe, I don't know. I'm still not sure render() should be called
> externally at all. I kind of like the idea of creating template objects
> that are similar to string.Template, i.e.:
>
> tmpl = my_loader('template_name', renderer)
> return tmpl.substitute(**kw)
>
> And then render() would just combine both those functions in a simple
> way; you'd bind the renderer up-front, then pass in both template name
> and **kw at the same time. We could allow for arbitrary arguments to be
> passed at load-time, though that complicates combining those two into a
> single function. But we could also just reserve one argument like
> template_config=dict(), and pass that value to the renderer, and every
> other keyword argument as variables.
Don't forget format='html', 'fragment=False, 'output_type='unicode',
and the three caching args. These would be kargs alongside the data
variables, which would also be confusing.
>
>
> --
> Ian Bicking : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://blog.ianbicking.org
>
> >
>
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