You can do
{{for d in data[:3]:
= "hi"
pass}}
to achieve when you want.
On Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:08:40 UTC-5, Rob wrote:
>
> 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
>
