On Jan 23, 2008 11:32 AM, James Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Jan 22, 2008 4:15 PM, Papalagi Pakeha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > what's the reasoning behind not having and not planning to have macros
> > in django templates? they look like a very useful construct compliant
> > with D
Hi Papa
> i wonder if there is any way to have Macros in django templates
> similar to what Jinja has (http://jinja.pocoo.org/)?
Have a look at "Support for {% macro %} tags in templates" at
http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/363/
I bet it's exactly what you're after. It lets you define ma
On Jan 22, 2008 5:15 PM, Papalagi Pakeha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Jan 23, 2008 4:08 AM, James Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > On Jan 21, 2008 8:30 PM, Papalagi Pakeha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > > i wonder if there is any way to have Macros in django templates
> > > simila
On Jan 22, 2008 4:15 PM, Papalagi Pakeha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> what's the reasoning behind not having and not planning to have macros
> in django templates? they look like a very useful construct compliant
> with DRY to me.
Django's template system is meant to be a means of expressing
pres
On Jan 23, 2008 4:08 AM, James Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Jan 21, 2008 8:30 PM, Papalagi Pakeha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > i wonder if there is any way to have Macros in django templates
> > similar to what Jinja has (http://jinja.pocoo.org/)?
>
> No.
>
> The Jinja project was s
You can create an intermediate base class that extends your base class
and includes elements like:
{% if actions %}
... show action table ...
{% endif %}
{% if element %}
... show edit element form ...
{% else %}
... show add element form ...
{% endif %}
and so forth and so on. Now your page ap
On Jan 21, 2008 8:30 PM, Papalagi Pakeha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i wonder if there is any way to have Macros in django templates
> similar to what Jinja has (http://jinja.pocoo.org/)?
No.
The Jinja project was started specifically to add additional
programming constructs that the Django tem
Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't jinja be pretty much used as a direct
drop in for django?
Ben
On 22/01/2008, Jeff Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> I stress again that I don't know a ton about the django template system,
> (or any for that matter)
> That being said, I will proc
Hello,
I stress again that I don't know a ton about the django template system,
(or any for that matter)
That being said, I will proceed to say what I think I know:
I don't believe that there is a macro-like feature in the django
template system that could do that. You'd have to switch comple
hi jeff, thanks for your response.
writing tags to replace macros looks like an overkill to me.
especially because a macro may hold a content that's specific to a
template and such a thing naturally belongs to the template itself and
shouldn't go somewhere deep into the python codebase.
have thi
I'm no expert with any template system, but I believe you can write your
own template tags for django's template system.
http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates_python/
At the section called "Extending the template system"
Hopefully this is a good starting point!
Jeff Anderson
P
hi there!
i wonder if there is any way to have Macros in django templates
similar to what Jinja has (http://jinja.pocoo.org/)?
the closest i could get was using 'include' tag and have the
repetitive content in a standalone file, but it's pretty obscure to
have a separate file for each little bit
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