[Templates] Python and TT

[Sean Allen]

On Mar 10, 2008, at 9:05 PM, Sean McAfee wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Sean Allen <sean at ardishealth.com>  
> wrote:
> We are getting ready to embark on porting a bunch of old code ( and
> several hundred TT templates ) to Python  and plan on using template-
> python to ease everything along. Anyone else but in any serious work
> with the python version of TT? If yes, do you have any gotchas to
> share that we should be aware of ahead of time?
>
> As the implementor of template-python, I'm probably the person with  
> most
> serious work under my belt--the most that I know of, anyway.  While  
> I haven't yet attempted to convert any sizeable Perl-TT project to  
> Python, I did document every potential gotcha I could think of in  
> the file README.python, located at the top of the Python source  
> distribution.  I'd encourage you to read that file carefully.  Other  
> than that, all of the inline POD documentation from the Perl source  
> code has been carried over into the Python source code, suitably  
> translated into the Python paradigm.  It can be read either by  
> browsing the source code, or (as noted in README.python) by the  
> built-in help feature of the interactive Python interpreter.  For  
> example:
>
> >>> import template.stash
> >>> help(template.stash.Stash)
> ... documentation for the Stash class ...
>
> If you come across any problems I didn't foresee, I'd be happy to  
> help you resolve them.  You can contact me privately, or--more  
> preferably--bring up any issues here on the mailing list.
>

Thanks Sean,

I did read the README.python and it was very thorough and informative,  
I always just like to check.
When this part rolls around in 6-12 weeks, if we hit any snags, I'll  
be back.

I guess we get to be a trial case on this.

- The other sean

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