Pythonic way of web-programming

[David Abrahams]

Mark E. <snowball3 at bigfoot.com> writes:

> David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com> wrote:
>
>>    xml.sometag(attr1="value1", attr2="value2", ...)[ "contents" ]
>
> Of course there are always corner cases to deal with. For example, what's a good way
> to handle XHTML's 'class' attribute?
>
> xml.sometag(class="css_class_name")["contents"]
> won't work.
>
> One could map 'foo_' to 'foo' to handle conflicting names used in xml/html, or allow
> a dictionary to serve the same purpose:
>
> xml.sometag({"attr1" : "value1", "class" : "value2"})["contents"]

Sure, you have lots of options. Also:

    xml.sometag(class_("value2"), attr1 = "value1")["contents"]

    xml.sometag({'class':"value2", 'while':"value3"}, attr1 = "value1")["contents"]

    xml.sometag(attr1 = "value1", _ = {'class':"value2", 'while':"value3"})["contents"]

it's all in the fun of designing domain-specific sublanguages.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com