Re:Beautiful mini language for outputing HTML in Python
by snprbob86 on Tuesday December 29, 2009 @05:34PM
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What are your thoughts on HAML and SASS? They aren't simply "cuter" they are a full-blown templating and stylesheet meta language. I've been using SASS in a Python project and love it. The more I use SASS, the more envious I grow of people who get to use HAML.
I was intending on eventually writing my own HAML-type language in Python, but it looks like with SHPAML, I won't have to. Because SHPAML supports raw HTML and doesn't do anything with the {} characters, I can use SHPAML in conjunction with my existing Jinja2 templates. This will enable me to convert my templates organically. The intermediate HTML/Jinja representation doesn't need to appear on disk, so this really looks like an easy way to add "cute" HTML syntax to and existing Python text templating language.
I was intending on eventually writing my own HAML-type language in Python, but it looks like with SHPAML, I won't have to. Because SHPAML supports raw HTML and doesn't do anything with the {} characters, I can use SHPAML in conjunction with my existing Jinja2 templates. This will enable me to convert my templates organically. The intermediate HTML/Jinja representation doesn't need to appear on disk, so this really looks like an easy way to add "cute" HTML syntax to and existing Python text templating language.