That's going a bit far...

Post #186,528 by admin 12/9/04 1:08:06 AM Reply	That's going a bit far... A good templating language can completely obviate the need for any programming at all in a simple job like this. Otherwise people wouldn't be writing generic templating systems for Python, and they definitely are. I've written one myself. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #186,529 by FuManChu 12/9/04 1:41:50 AM Reply	Meh. I'll meet that halfway In my experience, most of the Python templating systems are just as hard to learn as writing your own in Python. Newbies often have a hard time discerning which few are not.
Post #186,556 by Arkadiy 12/9/04 10:06:00 AM Reply	So say it already Which templating systems in Python are "the few that are not"? I am one of those newbies who have "hard time discerning". -- This guy's ahead of his time! He's using quantum programming methods: in universes where invalid data is passed to this function, it does not return. Thus you are ensured that you will only have valid data after calling it. Optimally you'd destroy the universe on failure, but computers haven't quite advanced to that level yet. -- [link\|http://thedailywtf.com/archive/2004/10/26/2920.aspx\|The] Daily WTF
Post #186,574 by FuManChu 12/9/04 11:11:11 AM Reply	I can't think of any that do everything you want The idea is simple enough: =================== \| \| \| Logo \| \| Company Name \| \| Person Name \| \| Address \| \| Phone \| \| FAX \| =================== Company name may be a link in some cases. URL and logo file name come from DB. Repeat the above for all record in query result... At this point pick whichever you like. Cheetah is probably best, given your simple page requirements. But there's no built-in database layer--you'll have to write that glue yourself using DBAPI or an odbc package. ...placing 15 record per page, generating links to next page, previous page, first, last. I can't think of any that will do this part for you. So you'd have to write some code. Which leads us back to "might as well do it yourself". Soooo many projects like yours start with a templating engine, then hit the limitations of it, and roll their own anyway.
Post #186,578 by Arkadiy 12/9/04 11:13:47 AM Reply	Sigh Then again, I get to code Python. Nothing to sigh about :) -- It is illegitimate and utterly intolerant to impose such a view upon anyone, even upon yourselves. -- [link\|http://belmontclub.blogspot.com/\|The Belmont Club]

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