2009/10/29 Albert Hopkins <mar...@letterboxes.org>: > On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 16:38 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> > return HttpResponse(unmaintanable_html % data) >> > >> >> That's fine for single variables, but if I need to output a table of >> unknown rows? I assume that return means the end of the script. >> Therefore I should shove the whole table into a variable and then copy >> that variable to the array "data"? >> > No, if you use a templating system like Django's then basically you pass > a QuerySet to your template. A QuerySet is basically a pointer to a SQL > query, for example. The templating system just knows to expect an > iterable, it can be a list of rows or it can be a QuerySet which does a > fetch from a database. No need to shove an entire table into a > variable.
Sounds like the system is trying to outsmart the programmer here. > Another advantage if templates for many is that it allows programmers to > do what they do best (write code) while letting web designers do what > they do best (designing web pages) without them walking over each other > (that much). > I do see that advantage. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
