the occasional occurrence

I wrote a new filter for CherryPy late last week. Buffet supports templating with Cheetah, Kid, Myghty and simple Python String Templates. In your page handlers, you either return a tuple of (’template_name.tmpl’, {’foo’:'bar’, ’spam’:'eggs’}) or use a decorator to specify the template and simply return a dict from your page handler. Depending on if folks find it useful, I will add support for other templating engines.

I was inspired by TurboGears and its nicely integrated templating setup as well as a discussion on the TurboGears mailing list regarding integrating TG and Subway. One of the main hangups in integrating/combining the two frameworks seems to be that TG uses Kid while Subway uses Cheetah.

I know that this filter won’t move the TG/Subway integration goal forward because there are other issues than simply what template engine is used to render a view, but it just seemed like it might be a handy filter to have down the road for other needs. Plus, I had time to kill and doing stuff with CP is just “fun”

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

cw

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