Hi All, I'm proud to announce that after almost a year's development, the first public release of Twiddler is available! Twiddler is a simple but flexible templating system for dynamically generating textual output. It comes with bindings for Zope 2 and should easily slot into a Zope 3 view in place of a ZPT. The key features are: - No need to learn a templating language. - As simple as possible while still catering for all possible templating operations. - Configurable input parsing so source can be html, xml, plain text or anything you write an input parser for. - Configurable output rendering so output can be rendered to a unicode string, an email, or anything you write an output renderer for. You can find out more and download from here: http://www.simplistix.co.uk/software/python/twiddler If you wish to ask questions, pass judgement or get help, please do so in the following mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/twiddler This is the first public release, so I'm looking for help with the following: - Finding anything that should be possible in a templating system but isn't with Twiddler - Packaging it up for easier distribution. I know nothing about eggs, distutils, etc, and so could do with help to package Twiddler so that it can be more easily installed. Finally, here's a couple of quick examples:
from twiddler import Twiddler t = Twiddler('''<body> ... <div id="title">A title</div> ... <select name="items"> ... <option id="item">An item</option> ... </select> ... </body>''')
t['title'].replace('My title') r = t['item'].repeater() for i in range(1,4): ... r.repeat('Item '+str(i),value=i,name=False)
print t.render() <body> <div id="title">My title</div> <select name="items"> <option id="item" value="1">Item 1</option> <option id="item" value="2">Item 2</option> <option id="item" value="3">Item 3</option> </select> </body>
from twiddler.input.plaintext import PlainText t = Twiddler('''To: $to ... <item>An item</item> ... ''',input=PlainText)
t['to'].replace('John Smith') r = t['item'].repeater() for i in range(1,4): ... r.repeat('Item '+str(i),value=i,name=False)
print t.render() To: John Smith Item 1 Item 2 Item 3
Thanks for reading this far, I hope you enjoy it! cheers, Chris -- Simplistix - Content Management, Zope & Python Consulting - http://www.simplistix.co.uk