No question he is reinventing web2py helpers. They look almost identical. In fact an acknowledgement would be in order. Web2py helpers have been around almost unchanged since Oct 2007.
I agree he is adding context managers. We did not create them not because we did not think about them but because we were supporting python 2.4 which does not have a with statement. There is a problem with minima's syntax. It can do with div.myclass: .... but this means you cannot "myclass" be a name of a method or attribute of div. Also you cannot do with div#myid: .... so this tries use the css / haml syntax in Python but only partially succeed. In web3py we have helpers.py which are almost identical to web2py helpers but faster and simpler. I just added contexts (it took 10 lines of code, pretty much the same as in minima's, I will post the code later today). https://github.com/mdipierro/web3py/commit/41a5c0f7e47e87e2bafdb5bef1f85df562803d8d It allows this: from web3py helpers import tag div, h1, p = tag.div, tag.h1, tag.p with div(_class='test') as html: h1('title') p('hello world') print html I like it. It is slightly different from minima's but it will stay in. Perhaps we should backport it to web2py. Massimo On Tuesday, 18 December 2012 03:04:10 UTC-6, Arnon Marcus wrote: > > Has anybody taken a look at this? > > http://tomerfiliba.com/blog/Hypertext/ > > My first reaction was "oh my, the poor guy is reinventing the wheel that > already exists in web2py..." > Then a friend of mine pointed out that: > " > ...context managers allow your code structure to correlate to the the > html layout, through nesting blocks. that's the key difference > " > > Is he correct? > Could this be implemented in web3py's HTML helpers? > --
