An idea - request for comments

Tue Aug 3 19:13:53 EDT 1999

Ian Clarke wrote in message <37A6A2DB.9B11FB01 at strs.co.uk>...

>It is to create a Python web server which automatically parses embedded
>Python in HTML (there is a Perl extension that does this too).  So, for
>example, the following HTML code:

Attached is some code I wrote for exactly this purpose.  I looked into Zope
and it's DocTemplate class, but it had some restrictions that I didnt like
for my purpose.  I wanted something closer to what you describe.

I stole my implementation idea from Microsoft's ASP.  <%  and <%= tags
delimit Python code.  There is no requirement on the text outside the <%
tags, so HTML (or indeed many other things) work fine.

<%= indicates a Python expression to be evaluated and the result placed in
the output stream.
<% indicates a Python block to be executed.  A "write" function can be
called by this code to insert text into the output stream.

The application provides a dictionary to this tool - this dictionary is the
"namespace" made available to the executed code.  there is no support for
rexec, as I trust the users running this :-)

A special token <% #end %> is used to overcome Python's white-space in this
environment.  Indentation is automatically applied to subsequent code
blocks.

Example text may be:
<% for i in range(3): %>
<%= "This is loop number %d" % i %>
<% #end %>
<% import string # Keep newline in token so not in output!
%><% words = string.split("hi there") %>
<% for word in words: %><%= word %><% #end %>

Note that the second line of the example is not indented, but magically
appears in the for loop.  The <% #end %> token ends the block, meaning the
import is not indented.

Attached for your amusement.

Mark.

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