Ann: PMZ - Poor Man's Zope

[rdudfield at my-deja.com]

In article
<Pine.LNX.3.96.1000202132043.6280A-100000 at starship.skyport.net>,
  Andreas Jung <ajung at starship.skyport.net> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am happy to announce the availability of POOR MAN'S ZOPE 0.1.
>
> PMZ is very similar to Active Server Pages or PHP3/4 and allows you
> to include Python code into your HTML pages.
>

Heh this is funny.

I just found your old code a week or two ago, and changed it to parse
for python code on multiple lines as well.  I got rid of the cgi and
restricted execution stuff as the imports were taking alot of the time
at start up ( and I don't need them unlike alot of people I'm sure ).

I also used <py> </py> as the tags instead of <? ?>.

Noticed in your docs you said it might be faster as an apache module...
I don't think it would for most files, as the main slow down would be in
starting up python, and since your going to be executing python
anyway...


Another extention to your script that I was thinking of making is the
following:

Have a string which the stuff html get put into instead of printing it.
If there is a problem with your python code, then have another function
serve up some other text.  You could define a function that gets called
if an exception is raised or some other error occurs.

You would of course have to make your python code concat stuff on to the
end of this string instead of printing it.

Anyway just something I need in my case.

Also I found a myerrorprint handy.  Like your myprint, but it writes to
stderr instead, which you can read in the apache error log file.


One more thing.

If you could add the idea of having templates, like in some other python
code that would be great.  The problem I have with the other template
code is that it can not be read by wysiwyg html editors.

So I think the following scheme would be good.

Have a list.  Lets call it _pmz_listOhtmlBits.

Now we have some new invented tags called <pyt>  </pyt> Short for python
template.

Then you can code in your html:

<pyt>
This is the first part of my conditionally served html.
bla blab bla <b> bla! </b>.
</pyt>

<pyt>
This is the second part of my conditionally served html.
dum de dum <b> dum de dum! </b>.
</pyt>

When the code is parsed we have _pmz_listOhtmlBits with these two bits
of html as elements.  Which we can then place into the html doc with our
python code.


One more thing before I go.  If you put a long piece of python code into
a module instead of straight into the html, then you can get a speed up,
and it looks nicer.  <py> import doStuff </py>


Rene.


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