After looking at Web.py’s own templating system, and considering Cheetah, I’ve ended up going with Mako for now. So far I’ve found it very straightforward, with some powerful-looking features to expand into in the future.
One of the great features is template inheritance - but I hit an issue recently with passing a variable from a child template to a parent. It’s not immediately obvious how to do this, but I found the answer on the Mako Google Groups archive (link here):
Child:
<%inherit file="meta.html"/>
<%def name="vars()">
<% return (meta.id,) %>
</%def>
Parent:
<% (id,) = self.vars() %>
On a side note, I found out today that two of the Python libraries I’m using, Mako and SQLAlchemy, were coded by the same guy - Michael Bayer. Clever chap - not only are the libraries pretty impressive, but they are both well documented and he regularly contributes to the mailing lists for both projects. And he doesn’t even have a big internet head like some developers - though I tracked his blog down here:
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