I really like how elegant and simple it is to create views in web2py. Would it be possible to use the view/template engine in a standalone application?
I'm writing a desktop application to view formatted text, like markdown, using PyQT's QtWebKit to render the generated html, and I would like to integrate web2py's method for generating views into my project. I've been looking through web2py's source and the mailing list, and it seems that response.render( view_text, dict() ) might be the closest thing to what I'm looking for. However, it looks like there's a lot of dependencies wrapped around it and the objects weren't made to be used in the context of another application. If this is the case, would it make sense to compartmentalize the parts for rendering a view into it's own module so they can be used in a standalone application, similar to the dal? I would be willing to come up with a patch for this, if I could get some hints on where to start.
