better way than: myPage += 'more html' , ...

[Max M]

#Gobo Borz wrote:
#> Thanks, that opens up a world of possibilities I haven't began to
#> explore.  In general, I'm not fond of templating systems because of the
#> overhead, but it seems as your suggestion might be fast, since it uses
#> ordinary string substitution.
#

Often an adapter is a good choice:


class HtmlViewAdapter:

     """
     Base class that Adapts any object to html output.
     """

     def __init__(self, obj):
         self._obj = obj

     def __getattr__(self, attr):
         "Returns values for the attributes"
         return getattr(self._obj, attr)

     def __getitem__(self, item):
         "get attrs as items for use in string formatting templates"
         value = getattr(self, item)
         if callable(value):
             return value()
         else:
             return value

import time

class SomeObject:

     "The object we want displayed in html"


     def __init__(self):
         self.id = 42
         self.now = time.localtime()
         self.title = 'the title'



class SomeObjectHtmlView(HtmlViewAdapter):

     """
     an adapter for the object, here you can fine adjust, format dates
     etc.
     """

     def title(self):
         return self._obj.title.upper()

     def now(self):
         return time.strftime('%y:%m:%d %H-%M-%S',self._obj.now)


view = SomeObjectHtmlView(SomeObject())

print '<a href="%(id)s">%(title)s</a> <i>%(now)s</i>' % view
 >>> <a href="42">THE TITLE</a> <i>03:06:26 00-12-16</i>