Re:Django 1.2 alpha 1 released
by jsdalton on Wednesday January 06, 2010 @09:24AM
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The smart "if" template tag (http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.2-alpha-1/#s...) was quite the welcome surprise for me in the release notes! I swear I've written a dozen custom template tags all because it wasn't possible to perform simple comparisons in the if condition.
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What would be really smart is if they just allowed Python code there.
That's just not what we're trying to do with Django's template language.
However, if you'd like a template language that's closer to pure Python, I'd suggest giving Cheetah (http://cheetahtemplate.org/) a try. I've used it in the past; quite nice.
also check out Jinja2 (http://jinja.pocoo.org/2/)
Re:Django 1.2 alpha 1 released
by ubernostrum on Wednesday January 06, 2010 @04:21PM
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It is now trivially easy to plug in whatever template language you like, and still have all the usual Django shortcuts work with it:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/api/#usin...