ANN: pyTenjin 1.0.0 - a high-speed and full-featured template engine

M

Makoto Kuwata

Hi all,

I released pyTenjin 1.0.0.
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Tenjin/
http://www.kuwata-lab.com/tenjin/

This release contains a lot of enhancements and changes.


Overview
--------

* Very fast: about 10 times faster than Django template engine
* Easy to learn: no need to learn template-original language
* Full-featured: nestable layout template, partial template, preprocessing, etc.
* Lightweight: only 2000 lines of code and very fast to import.
* Google App Engine supported


Documents
---------

* User's Guide
http://www.kuwata-lab.com/tenjin/pytenjin-users-guide.html
* Examples
http://www.kuwata-lab.com/tenjin/pytenjin-examples.html
* CHANGES
http://www.kuwata-lab.com/tenjin/pytenjin-CHANGES.txt


Install
-------

$ sudo easy_install Tenjin

Or:

$ wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/T/Tenjin/Tenjin-1.0.0.tar.gz
$ tar xzf Tenjin-1.0.0.tar.gz
$ cd Tenjin-1.0.0/
$ sudo python setup.py install


Example
-------

## views/example.pyhtml
<?py #@ARGS title, items ?>
<h2>${title}</h2>
<table>
<?py cycle = new_cycle('odd', 'even') ?>
<?py for item in items: ?>
<tr class="${cycle()}">
<td>${item}</td>
</tr>
<?py #endfor ?>
</table>

## main.py
import tenjin
#tenjin.set_template_encoding('utf-8') # optional (default 'utf-8')
from tenjin.helpers import *
from tenjin.html import *
engine = tenjin.Engine(path=['views'])
context = {'title': 'Example', 'items': ['Haruhi', 'Mikuru', 'Yuki'] }
output = engine.render('example.pyhtml', context)
print(output)

## output
$ python main.py
<h2>Example</h2>
<table>
<tr class="odd">
<td>Haruhi</td>
</tr>
<tr class="even">
<td>Mikuru</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td>Yuki</td>
</tr>
</table>


Enhancements
------------

* (IMPORTANT!!) Performance is improved (about 5 percent).
To improve performance, compiled Python code is changed.
This means that YOU MUST TOUCH ALL TEMPLATE FILES AND UPDATE TIME STAMPS
OF THEM in order to clear cache data before using this release.

## touch all template files to clear cache data
$ find . -name '*.pyhtml' | xargs touch
## show compiled python code
$ cat ex.pyhtml
<ul>
<?py for item in items: ?>
<li>${item}</li>
<?py #endfor ?>
<?ul>
$ pytenjin -sb ex.pyhtml
_extend=_buf.extend;_to_str=to_str;_escape=escape;
_extend(('''<ul>\n''', ));
for item in items:
_extend((''' <li>''', _escape(_to_str(item)), '''</li>\n''', ));
#endfor
_extend(('''<?ul>\n''', ));

* (IMPORTANT!!) Free-indent style supported. Now there is no limitation
about indent.

## In the previous version, there is strong restriction about indent.
<html>
<body>
<table>
<?py for item in items: ?>
<tr>
<td>${item}</td>
</tr>
<?py #endfor ?>
</table>
</body>
</html>

## In this release, you can place statements freely.
<html>
<body>
<table>
<?py for item in items: ?>
<tr>
<td>${item}</td>
</tr>
<?py #endfor ?>
</table>
</body>
</html>

* (IMPORTANT!!) SafeTemplate and SafeEngine classes are now provided.
These classes support autoescaping similar to Django or Jinja2.
See
http://www.kuwata-lab.com/tenjin/pytenjin-users-guide.html#auto-escaping
for details.

* (IMPORTANT!!) New function 'tenjin.set_template_encoding()' is provided.
If you prefer templates to be unicode-base like Django or Jinja2,
call it before importing helpers.

## change Tenjin to be unicode-based
import tenjin
tenjin.set_template_encoding('utf-8') # call before importing helpers
from tenjin.helpers import *
## The above is same as:
#import tenjin
#Template.encoding = 'utf-8'
#tenjin.helpers.to_str = tenjin.helpers.generate_tostrfunc(decode='utf-8')
#from tenjin.helpers import *

Notice that you should NOT write '<?py # coding: utf-8 ?>' into template
files if you call tenjin.set_template_encoding(). If you wrote it,
SyntaxError exception would be raised.

* (IMPORTANT!!) New helper function 'cache_as()' is available for
fragment cache.
This replaces 'not_cached()' and 'echo_cached()'.

## previous (obsolete)
<?py if not_cached('cachekey1', 60): ?>
...
<?py #endif ?>
<?py echo_cached() ?>

## using new helper
<?py for _ in cache_as('cachekey1', 60): ?>
...
<?py #endfor ?>

'not_cached()' and 'echo_cached()' are still available but not recommended.

* (IMPORTANT!!) New helper 'capture_as()' is available for capturing template.
This replaces 'start_capture()' and 'stop_capture()'.

## preivous (obsolete)
<?py start_capture('name') ?>
....
<?py stop_capture() ?>

## using new helper
<?py with capture_as('name'): ?>
....
<?py #endfor ?>

'start_capture()' and 'stop_capture()' are still available but not
recommended.

New helper 'capture_as()' allows you to nest capturing which is
impossible with 'start_capture()' and 'stop_capture()'.

* If 'trace=True' is passed to Template class (or Engine class), output
string will contain template file name. For example:

<!-- ***** begin: hello.pyhtml ***** -->
<div class="content">
<p>Hello World!</p>
</div>
<!-- ***** end: hello.pyhtml ***** -->

* tenjin.Engine now helps M17N of templates. If you pass 'lang' option to
Engine, it will generates cache files for each langs from a file.
This feature is intened to use with preprocessing in order to reduce
catalog expantion cost (such as '${_("Hello")}')

## for lang='en'
engine_en = tenjin.Engine(lang='en', preprocess=True)
engine_en.render('index.pyhtml') # generates 'index.pyhtml.en.cache'
## for lang='fr'
engine_fr = tenjin.Engine(lang='fr', preprocess=True)
engine_fr.render('index.pyhtml') # generates 'index.pyhtml.fr.cache'

* (Experimental) New html helper 'js_link()'.
'<a href="javascript:undefined"
onclick="alert(&quot;OK&quot;);return false" class="link">click</a>'


Changes
-------

* (IMPORTANT!!) You must close statement block of 'if', 'for', 'with', ...
with corresponding '#endif', '#endfor', '#endwith', and so on.
Notice that '#end' is available as almighty closer.

* (IMPORTANT!!) tenjin.GaeMemcacheCacheStorage is removed (this is already
announced in the previous release).
Please use tenjin.gae.GaeMemcacheStorage instead.

* 'tenjin.helpers.html' module is renamed to 'tenjin.html', but old module
name is still available for backward compatibility.

* escape_html() (and escape()) now escapes "'" into "'".

* new_cycle() is moved from tenjin.helpers.html module to tenjin.helpers
module because it is not only for HTML.

* In GAE environment, Tenjin uses '1.1' as dummy value of CURRENT_VERSION_ID
when it is not provided. This prevents error when using GAE and tenjin
on test environment.

* Python 2.3 is now unsupported. (Python 2.4 is still supported because
CentOS uses Python 2.4).

* (internal) Tenjin.escape_expr_and_escapeflag() is changed to
Tenjin.escape_expr_and_flags().

* (internal) Tenjin.add_expr() is changed to take 'flags' argument.

* (internal) 'tenjin.__release__' is renamed to 'tenjin.__version__'.


Bugfixes
--------

* Cache file saving was failed on Windows because existing file should be
removed before renaming file. (patched by elishowk, thank you!)


Thank you.
 
D

Dhaivat Pandya

Hi all,

I released pyTenjin 1.0.0.http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Tenjin/http://www.kuwata-lab.com/tenjin/

This release contains a lot of enhancements and changes.

Overview
--------

* Very fast: about 10 times faster than Django template engine
* Easy to learn: no need to learn template-original language
* Full-featured: nestable layout template, partial template, preprocessing, etc.
* Lightweight: only 2000 lines of code and very fast to import.
* Google App Engine supported

Documents
---------

* User's Guide
 http://www.kuwata-lab.com/tenjin/pytenjin-users-guide.html
* Examples
 http://www.kuwata-lab.com/tenjin/pytenjin-examples.html
* CHANGES
 http://www.kuwata-lab.com/tenjin/pytenjin-CHANGES.txt

Install
-------

    $ sudo easy_install Tenjin

Or:

    $ wgethttp://pypi.python.org/packages/source/T/Tenjin/Tenjin-1.0.0.tar.gz
    $ tar xzf Tenjin-1.0.0.tar.gz
    $ cd Tenjin-1.0.0/
    $ sudo python setup.py install

Example
-------

    ## views/example.pyhtml
    <?py #@ARGS title, items ?>
    <h2>${title}</h2>
    <table>
      <?py cycle = new_cycle('odd', 'even') ?>
      <?py for item in items: ?>
      <tr class="${cycle()}">
        <td>${item}</td>
      </tr>
      <?py #endfor ?>
    </table>

    ## main.py
    import tenjin
    #tenjin.set_template_encoding('utf-8')  # optional (default 'utf-8')
    from tenjin.helpers import *
    from tenjin.html import *
    engine = tenjin.Engine(path=['views'])
    context = {'title': 'Example', 'items': ['Haruhi', 'Mikuru', 'Yuki'] }
    output = engine.render('example.pyhtml', context)
    print(output)

    ## output
    $ python main.py
    <h2>Example</h2>
    <table>
      <tr class="odd">
        <td>Haruhi</td>
      </tr>
      <tr class="even">
        <td>Mikuru</td>
      </tr>
      <tr class="odd">
        <td>Yuki</td>
      </tr>
    </table>

Enhancements
------------

* (IMPORTANT!!) Performance is improved (about 5 percent).
  To improve performance, compiled Python code is changed.
  This means that YOU MUST TOUCH ALL TEMPLATE FILES AND UPDATE TIME STAMPS
  OF THEM in order to clear cache data before using this release.

    ## touch all template files to clear cache data
    $ find . -name '*.pyhtml' | xargs touch
    ## show compiled python code
    $ cat ex.pyhtml
    <ul>
    <?py for item in items: ?>
      <li>${item}</li>
    <?py #endfor ?>
    <?ul>
    $ pytenjin -sb ex.pyhtml
    _extend=_buf.extend;_to_str=to_str;_escape=escape;
_extend(('''<ul>\n''', ));
    for item in items:
        _extend(('''  <li>''', _escape(_to_str(item)), '''</li>\n''', ));
    #endfor
    _extend(('''<?ul>\n''', ));

* (IMPORTANT!!) Free-indent style supported. Now there is no limitation
  about indent.

    ## In the previous version, there is strong restriction about indent.
    <html>
      <body>
        <table>
    <?py for item in items: ?>
          <tr>
            <td>${item}</td>
          </tr>
    <?py #endfor ?>
        </table>
      </body>
    </html>

    ## In this release, you can place statements freely.
    <html>
      <body>
        <table>
          <?py for item in items: ?>
          <tr>
            <td>${item}</td>
          </tr>
          <?py #endfor ?>
        </table>
      </body>
    </html>

* (IMPORTANT!!) SafeTemplate and SafeEngine classes are now provided.
  These classes support autoescaping similar to Django or Jinja2.
  See
   http://www.kuwata-lab.com/tenjin/pytenjin-users-guide.html#auto-escaping
  for details.

* (IMPORTANT!!) New function 'tenjin.set_template_encoding()' is provided..
  If you prefer templates to be unicode-base like Django or Jinja2,
  call it before importing helpers.

     ## change Tenjin to be unicode-based
     import tenjin
     tenjin.set_template_encoding('utf-8')  # call before importing helpers
     from tenjin.helpers import *
     ## The above is same as:
     #import tenjin
     #Template.encoding = 'utf-8'
     #tenjin.helpers.to_str = tenjin.helpers.generate_tostrfunc(decode='utf-8')
     #from tenjin.helpers import *

  Notice that you should NOT write '<?py # coding: utf-8 ?>' into template
  files if you call tenjin.set_template_encoding(). If you wrote it,
  SyntaxError exception would be raised.

* (IMPORTANT!!) New helper function 'cache_as()' is available for
fragment cache.
  This replaces 'not_cached()' and 'echo_cached()'.

     ## previous (obsolete)
     <?py if not_cached('cachekey1', 60): ?>
       ...
     <?py #endif ?>
     <?py echo_cached() ?>

     ## using new helper
     <?py for _ in cache_as('cachekey1', 60): ?>
       ...
     <?py #endfor ?>

  'not_cached()' and 'echo_cached()' are still available but not recommended.

* (IMPORTANT!!) New helper 'capture_as()' is available for capturing template.
  This replaces 'start_capture()' and 'stop_capture()'.

     ## preivous (obsolete)
     <?py start_capture('name') ?>
       ....
     <?py stop_capture() ?>

     ## using new helper
     <?py with capture_as('name'): ?>
       ....
     <?py #endfor ?>

  'start_capture()' and 'stop_capture()' are still available but not
recommended.

  New helper 'capture_as()' allows you to nest capturing which is
  impossible with 'start_capture()' and 'stop_capture()'.

* If 'trace=True' is passed to Template class (or Engine class), output
  string will contain template file name. For example:

     <!-- ***** begin: hello.pyhtml ***** -->
     <div class="content">
       <p>Hello World!</p>
     </div>
     <!-- ***** end: hello.pyhtml ***** -->

* tenjin.Engine now helps M17N of templates. If you pass 'lang' option to
  Engine, it will generates cache files for each langs from a file.
  This feature is intened to use with preprocessing in order to reduce
  catalog expantion cost (such as '${_("Hello")}')

      ## for lang='en'
      engine_en = tenjin.Engine(lang='en', preprocess=True)
      engine_en.render('index.pyhtml')  # generates 'index.pyhtml..en.cache'
      ## for lang='fr'
      engine_fr = tenjin.Engine(lang='fr', preprocess=True)
      engine_fr.render('index.pyhtml')  # generates 'index.pyhtml..fr.cache'

* (Experimental) New html helper 'js_link()'.

      >>> from tenjin.html import *
      >>> js_link('click', 'alert("OK")', klass='link')
      '<a href="javascript:undefined"
onclick="alert(&quot;OK&quot;);return false" class="link">click</a>'

Changes
-------

* (IMPORTANT!!) You must close statement block of 'if', 'for', 'with', ....
  with corresponding '#endif', '#endfor', '#endwith', and so on.
  Notice that '#end' is available as almighty closer.

* (IMPORTANT!!) tenjin.GaeMemcacheCacheStorage is removed (this is already
  announced in the previous release).
  Please use tenjin.gae.GaeMemcacheStorage instead.

* 'tenjin.helpers.html' module is renamed to 'tenjin.html', but old module
  name is still available for backward compatibility.

* escape_html() (and escape()) now escapes "'" into "'".

* new_cycle() is moved from tenjin.helpers.html module to tenjin.helpers
  module because it is not only for HTML.

* In GAE environment, Tenjin uses '1.1' as dummy value of CURRENT_VERSION_ID
  when it is not provided. This prevents error when using GAE and tenjin
  on test environment.

* Python 2.3 is now unsupported. (Python 2.4 is still supported because
  CentOS uses Python 2.4).

* (internal) Tenjin.escape_expr_and_escapeflag() is changed to
  Tenjin.escape_expr_and_flags().

* (internal) Tenjin.add_expr() is changed to take 'flags' argument.

* (internal) 'tenjin.__release__' is renamed to 'tenjin.__version__'.

Bugfixes
--------

* Cache file saving was failed on Windows because existing file should be
  removed before renaming file. (patched by elishowk, thank you!)

Thank you.

I love that you have included python inside the templating. I hate
those templates which have a seperate template language.
 

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