Re: [Web-SIG] A trivial template API counter-proposal

2006-02-04 Thread Guido van Rossum
[Phillip] API to be provided by a template engine: compile_string(text), compile_stream(input_stream) - return a WSGI application object for the template described by the text or file-like object write_compiled(app, output_stream) - save the compiled form of the template to output_stream

Re: [Web-SIG] A trivial template API counter-proposal

2006-02-04 Thread Ben Bangert
On Feb 4, 2006, at 8:17 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: I am probably missing something, but shouldn't there also be an API to render the template to a string or stream given some context of variable names? I'm looking at this from a very different perspective, namely *using* various templating