Hi,
I'm using the standalone template.py to generate non html files and the
excess whitespace is making this somewhat painful.
For example, my view:
#ifndef __BLAH__
#define __BLAH__
{{for d in data[:3]:}}
{{= "hi"}}
{{pass}}
#endif
outputs:
#ifndef __BLAH__
#define __BLAH__
hi
hi
hi
#endif
I'm sure there are lots of reasons why this can't happen, but I propose
that render() simply removes lines that contain nothing but whitespace and
logic. For example, given the same view:
1 #ifndef __BLAH__
2 #define __BLAH__
3 {{for d in data[:3]:}}
4 {{= "hi"}}
5 {{pass}}
6 #endif
Line number 3 and 6 contain nothing but template logic and whitespace (with
excess carriage returns). Is there a reason why the rendering engine
couldn't simply remove this whitespace from the output? IE: if the line
contains pure logic ({{...}}) and whitespace, just remove it. If the line
contains {{=..}} and other whitespace then it stays.
Does this break all sorts of HTML output?
Thanks,
Rob
