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Gere
Gere

Reputation: 12697

Simple HTML template in Python

I'd like to fill a HTML template with data from Python. While I don't know any HTML, a colleague of mine would prepare the HTML template whereas I provide the data. However, he knows only little about Python.

Could you suggest a very basic template framework which handles this separation of HTML and Python nicely (i.e. not much special syntax in HTML; and not much HTML for me to know in the Python data code)? Ideally the HTML template should be very close to pure HTML.

I will also have tables as data, so it would be nice if I didn't have to prepare HTML table code, but instead he could do it with some minimal markup logic. Ideally the system should work even if my colleague applies more advanced concepts like CSS.

I've found the extensive list, but it's really hard to judge which of the system is closest to my requirements as I don't know the technical language.

EDIT: the point is we are newbies with that, and we only need a basic solution :) - yet ideally no HTML for me and not much beyond plain HTML for him.

Upvotes: 20

Views: 72604

Answers (3)

Sergio A. Kessler
Sergio A. Kessler

Reputation: 426

The simple template in python is: https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/string.html#template-strings

It comes with the language, no need for external libraries.

Here is an example of how to use a Template:

>>> from string import Template
>>> s = Template('$who likes $what')
>>> s.substitute(who='tim', what='kung pao')
'tim likes kung pao'
>>> d = dict(who='tim')
>>> Template('Give $who $100').substitute(d)
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
ValueError: Invalid placeholder in string: line 1, col 11
>>> Template('$who likes $what').substitute(d)
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
KeyError: 'what'
>>> Template('$who likes $what').safe_substitute(d)
'tim likes $what'

Upvotes: 5

jb.
jb.

Reputation: 23955

Well django has very nice powerful templating engine, that's purpose is separating HTML from python logic (but that would require you to use django altogether, so it might be an overkill if you just want templating).

If your templates are really easy (no loops) you might use native python string.format function (I used it in a side project that generated config files to some Fortran code, and it wasn't so bad).

Other choice might be jinja2 that is really close to django templates, but standalone and more powerful.

Upvotes: 25

Nick
Nick

Reputation: 354

Might I suggest looking at web2py as well? At the most basic level you could simple have your colleague create the html file then where ever you need data replace it with {{=var}} the var can be retrieved by the web2py controller which is written in a python function. From the function you could put together your data and return it the html view with "return dict(var=var)".

If your view looked like this:

<html>
    <head>
        <title>some title</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h1>{{=message}}</h1>
    </body>
</html>

The controller could look like this:

def index():
    message = "Hello World"
    return dict(message=message)

You could also use django, as other have mentioned but check the link for some web2py documentation

Upvotes: 6

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