script delimiters

[David Porter]

* Ian Lipsky <NOSPAM at pacificnet.net>:

> Right now (although i havent tried this) i think i should be able to create
> html files and put <script></script> tags within the html to execute python
> code.
>  What i wanted to know if there was someway to shorten this down to using
> delimiter characters?
> 
> So i could do something like:
> 
> <% if something: %>
>     some html text saying something is true
> <%else:%>
>     some html text saying something isnt true
> 

How about:

<? 
if something:
    print "some html text saying something is true"
else:
    print "some html text saying something isnt true"
?>

It looks to me that this would be even shorter than what you had in mind.
This is how PMZ (Poor Man's Zope) works. See http://www.suxers.de/pmz.htm