Re: [Rest2web-develop] Added an 'ip_addr' IPv4 address value test...

[Nicola L. <ni...@te...>]

> I didn't *like* the initial implemntation. I thought you could achieve
> the identical thing with a single function (method ?) and a dictionary.
> 
> Also the example ones looked horribly complicated and not *that* useful.
> I'd prefer it if the examples we supply are at least comprehensible.
> 
> It's possible I was wrong and it's just because it was code I didn't
> write :-)
> 
> I'd be quite happy for you to implement something - or I'll put
> something back when I've done ConfigObj.

We'll see.


>> You want Quixote's PTLs, man. You *really* want them. :-) What are they?
>> Text generation through real Python, that's what. BTW, I share your dislike
>> of embedded mini-languages for templating.

> I don't yet know you well enough to know when you're being facetious.
> Are you serious that I would like PTL ?

Too many smiling faces, probably. Yes, I'm serious. Two years ago there was
no Nevow in Twisted, only Woven, its precursor (and from where it took its
name :-) ). I tried using it, but couldn't grasp its form processing, so I
turned back to old faithful Quixote, extracted the PTLs and the form
processing, and transplanted them into Twisted. And that's what we use
every day at my job, these days. :-)

Quixote's PTLs and Nevow's XHTML (with Zope's ZPT) are the two extremes of
the Python web templating spectrum, with almost nothing interesting in between.


> Which do you think would be more of a fruitful starting point ? -
> finding a twisted tutorial and ploughing in, or finding a twisted
> tutorial and trying to find my way in....

Looks like a Twisted tutorial would do you good. ;-D

It's true, too many choices in Python web templating. These days I'm hell
bent on Twisted, and leaning on Nevow, but Quixote is such a nice little
jewel that I think it's good having some familiarity with it.

Five-minutes crash course in Medusa+Quixote:

Download and install Medusa: http://www.amk.ca/python/code/medusa.html
do the same with Quixote: http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/quixote/
cd .../quixote/server
python medusa_http.py
Point your web browser to: http://localhost:8080/

That's it. :-) The Quixote docs are written with ReST, moreover. ;-)

-- 
Nicola Larosa - ni...@te...

When I was growing up, my parents used to say to me, "Tom, finish your
dinner - people in China are starving." But after sailing to the edges
of the flat world for a year, I am now telling my own daughters, "Girls,
finish your homework - people in China and India are starving for your
jobs." -- Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, April 2005