[Zope-dev] Creating a fully stand-alone Zope Page Templates

[Barry Pederson]

Kevin Smith wrote:
> I am trying to make a stand-alone Page Templates packages that doesn't 
> have any Zope dependencies.  I was able to short circuit security and 
> acquisition.  I re-implemented MultiMapping in plain Python and made the 
> Base class just an empty class.
> 
> This is passing most of the regression tests, but there is one big issue 
> left.  When a page template invokes something that is a function, it 
> prints the equivalent of 'repr(function)' instead of 'function()'.  What 
> magic that goes on within Zope am I missing in my wrapper?

This doesn't answer the above question, and may not be suitable for Kevin's 
needs, but I thought I'd mention there's a pretty nice Zope-independent 
page template implementation at:

     http://www.owlfish.com/software/simpleTAL/

in case others have an interest in that sort of thing, and pretty amazingly 
- it does it with just two module files, so it's a piece of cake to use.

	Barry