Web development with Python 3.1

[rustom]

On Nov 5, 5:16 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.
42.desthuilli... at websiteburo.invalid> wrote:
> rustom a écrit :
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> > On Nov 5, 2:23 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.
> > 42.desthuilli... at websiteburo.invalid> wrote:
> >> rustom a écrit :
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> >>> On Oct 30, 6:23 pm, Dotan Cohen <dotanco... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> The point is that I want to use only _Python_ features, not
> >>>> Django/Mako/whatever features.
> >>> Pure python has a builtin templating system -- its called  %
> >> Poor man's template... It only do variable substitutions - no branching
> >> nor iteration (and let's not talk about macros, inclusions, filters etc).
>
> > I realised that that link
> >http://simonwillison.net/2003/Jul/28/simpleTemplates/
> > was written in 2003
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> > Subsequently python has sprouted something explicitly templateish
> >http://docs.python.org/library/string.html#template-strings
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> Still poor man's template. Just don't hope to do any realworld web
> templating with this.

This is said in the context of some of Dotan's quotes eg.

> I am not a programmer by trade, only by hobby.
> I want to learn Python not Django
etc

Python is generally imperative.
Templates are by and large declarative.

To get this 'Aha' across to him (remember he said hes a mechanical
engineer) is (IMHO) more important than converting him to some moral
high ground of reusability or some other nice software engineering
jargon.