Choco Templates for Python
Choco is a template library written in Python. It provides a familiar, non-XML syntax which compiles into Python modules for maximum performance. Choco's syntax and API borrows from the best ideas of many others, including Django templates, Cheetah, Myghty, and Genshi. Conceptually, Choco is an embedded Python (i.e. Python Server Page) language, which refines the familiar ideas of componentized layout and inheritance to produce one of the most straightforward and flexible models available, while also maintaining close ties to Python calling and scoping semantics.
Nutshell
<%inherit file="base.html"/> <% rows = [[v for v in range(0,10)] for row in range(0,10)] %> <table> % for row in rows: ${makerow(row)} % endfor </table> <%def name="makerow(row)"> <tr> % for name in row: <td>${name}</td>\ % endfor </tr> </%def>
UI
UI tag is inspired by EmberJs Handlebarjs tempalte.
index.html
This is an UI Page <%@ PostView(post_id)/>
ui/post.html
This is a Post View Name: ${post.title} Content: ${post.content}
def create_ui_container():
from choco.ui import UIContainer, UIModule
ui_container = UIContainer(["template/ui"])
class PostView(UIModule):
default_template = "post.html"
def initialize(self):
self.thing = Thing("Post")
def render(self, post_id):
post = self.thing.getByPostId(post_id)
return {
"post": post
}
ui_container.put_ui("PostView", PostView)
return ui_container
tl2 = lookup.TemplateLookup(directories=["template"], ui_container=create_ui_container())
t12.get_template("index.html").render(post_id=122)
Philosophy
Python is a great scripting language. Don't reinvent the wheel...your templates can handle it !
License
Choco is licensed under an MIT-style license (see LICENSE). Other incorporated projects may be licensed under different licenses. All licenses allow for non-commercial and commercial use.