PHP + TinyButStrong Python replacement

[pistacchio]

Mike Driscoll ha scritto:
> On May 7, 6:12 am, pistacchio <pistacc... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi! i'm a php user and a python programmer. i'd love to use python for
>> my server side needs but i can't seem to find what i'm looking for. for
>> most of my php work i use mysql and tinyButStrong
>> (http://www.tinybutstrong.com) which is a very lightweight template
>> engine that offers powerful functionalities. you insert TBS tags in web
>> pages like:
>>
>> <div align="center" class="title-page"> [var.x] </div>
>>
>> and it replaces [var.x] with the value of global variable x. it also
>> makes blocks (and nested blocks) easy to implement:
>>
>> <p class="text-example2"> [blk1;block=begin] [blk1.val]<br>
>> [blk1;block=end] </p>
>>
>> in the previous code it cycles throu all the values of the array blk1.
>>
>> it does many more things, like htlm escaping, url and js encoding etc,
>> conditional displaying etc, but it is not more confusing that inserting
>> pieces of code into the HTML (aka: littering the code and kissing
>> goodbye to the code/presentation separation). it comes in the form of a
>> single file with a single class that you can easily include in the code
>> and go.
>>
>> now, i've searched the net and it seems full of python-based frameworks
>> for doing server side scripting and templating, but none that suits my
>> needs.
>>
>>     1. i like writing code and i like control. i mean, open up the
>> simplest text editor and write in it. i don't want something that is
>> command-line driven or that writes code for me like ">>>
>> makePagesFromThisDatabase()".
>>     2. i want something very lightweight. i don't want dozen of options,
>> pre-made blogging parts ecc. i just need a good non invasive template
>> engine and the basic functions for server side scripting, like session
>> managing, request parsing, functions to manipulate html code (encodings etc)
>>     3. i don't want to beg my hosting provider to install the libraries.
>> a simple include file should do the work.
>>     4. object oriented programming is not required (better: i prefer
>> plain old procedural programming).
>>
>> any help? thanks in advance
> 

hi, thanks for replaying

> Did you look at TurboGears or Django? TG uses Kid in the 1.x series
> and Genshi in 2.x (I think) for templating purposes. There's also
> Cheetah, one of the more powerful Python templating engines out there.
> 

django is exacly the kind of giant i'm trying to avoid

> http://genshi.edgewall.org/

the first lines of the tutorial read:
"First, make sure you have CherryPy 3.0.x installed"
Now, cherrypy is something that is not properly "include a file and get 
going!"

> http://www.kid-templating.org/

kid seems to have a non-linear approach, but i may give it a try

> http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/

cheetah was something that i already considered using. have i to 
"install" it or can i just import it?

> http://turbogears.org/

same problem as with django!

> 
> Maybe those links will get you going.
> 
> Mike