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author | R. Tyler Ballance <tyler@slide.com> | 2009-06-01 10:45:21 -0700 |
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committer | R. Tyler Ballance <tyler@slide.com> | 2009-06-01 10:45:21 -0700 |
commit | 8cbbb51dcb1b83cdccdf4235494bde2f57989cce (patch) | |
tree | 00396c4628f52f80bfac2c71e2e1510bdd35140c /www | |
parent | 0cb8314d36af237638890520d90863f0f4543c37 (diff) | |
download | python-cheetah-8cbbb51dcb1b83cdccdf4235494bde2f57989cce.tar.gz |
Update more sphinx based documentation, this pretty much finishes the transfer from the Markdown stuff I had previously
Signed-off-by: R. Tyler Ballance <tyler@slide.com>
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-rw-r--r-- | www/conf.py | 10 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | www/documentation.rst | 12 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | www/download.rst | 17 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | www/index.rst | 11 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | www/recipes/inheritance.rst | 62 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | www/recipes/precompiled.rst | 59 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | www/recipes/staticmethod.rst | 54 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | www/recipes/writing_a_recipe.rst | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | www/roadmap.rst | 25 |
9 files changed, 246 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/www/conf.py b/www/conf.py index 49b132f..4c28ecf 100644 --- a/www/conf.py +++ b/www/conf.py @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ pygments_style = 'sphinx' # The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages. Major themes that come with # Sphinx are currently 'default' and 'sphinxdoc'. -html_theme = 'default' +html_theme = 'sphinxdoc' # Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme # further. For a list of options available for each theme, see the @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ html_static_path = ['_static'] # If not '', a 'Last updated on:' timestamp is inserted at every page bottom, # using the given strftime format. -#html_last_updated_fmt = '%b %d, %Y' +html_last_updated_fmt = '%b %d, %Y' # If true, SmartyPants will be used to convert quotes and dashes to # typographically correct entities. @@ -138,16 +138,16 @@ html_use_smartypants = True #html_additional_pages = {} # If false, no module index is generated. -#html_use_modindex = True +html_use_modindex = True # If false, no index is generated. -#html_use_index = True +html_use_index = True # If true, the index is split into individual pages for each letter. #html_split_index = False # If true, links to the reST sources are added to the pages. -#html_show_sourcelink = True +html_show_sourcelink = True # If true, an OpenSearch description file will be output, and all pages will # contain a <link> tag referring to it. The value of this option must be the diff --git a/www/documentation.rst b/www/documentation.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fd7c086 --- /dev/null +++ b/www/documentation.rst @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +User Documentation +================== + +Simple Recipes +-------------- +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 2 + + recipes/inheritance.rst + recipes/precompiled.rst + recipes/staticmethod.rst + recipes/writing_a_recipe.rst diff --git a/www/download.rst b/www/download.rst index 713d325..922e9eb 100644 --- a/www/download.rst +++ b/www/download.rst @@ -1,2 +1,19 @@ Downloading Cheetah =================== + +The most recent stable release of Cheetah **v2.2.0** which was released on +May 17th, 2009. + +Download v2.2.0 +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +* `v2.2.0 tarball <http://github.com/cheetahtemplate/cheetah/tarball/v2.2.0>`_ +* `v2.2.0 zip <http://github.com/cheetahtemplate/cheetah/zipball/v2.2.0>`_ + +You can keep up to date with release candidates or other downloads of Cheetah by +visiting the `cheetahtemplate GitHub page <http://github.com/cheetahtemplate/cheetah/downloads>`_ + +**Note to Windows users:** You should install the compiled version of Cheetah's +NameMapper. It is dramatically faster than the pure Python version, in the source +tree you can find compiled versions for Python 2.4: namemapper.pyd2.4, +Python 2.5: namemapper.pyd2.5. Install it wherever your system puts +Cheetah/NameMapper.py. Strip the version numbers off the filename. diff --git a/www/index.rst b/www/index.rst index 2cd0096..bcfa124 100644 --- a/www/index.rst +++ b/www/index.rst @@ -17,17 +17,22 @@ At its core, Cheetah is a domain-specific language for markup generation and templating which allows for full integration with existing Python code but also offers extensions to traditional Python syntax to allow for easier text-generation. +Talk Cheetah +^^^^^^^^^^^^ +You can get involved and talk with Cheetah developers on the `Cheetah mailing list <http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cheetahtemplate-discuss>`_ +(*cheetahtemplate-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net*) or on the **IRC** channel: +**#cheetah** on `Freenode <http://freenode.net/>`_ - -Contents: +Contents ^^^^^^^^^ .. toctree:: - :maxdepth: 2 + :maxdepth: 1 developers.rst download.rst roadmap.rst + documentation.rst Cheetah in a nutshell diff --git a/www/recipes/inheritance.rst b/www/recipes/inheritance.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..983e044 --- /dev/null +++ b/www/recipes/inheritance.rst @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +Basic Inheritance +================= + +Introduction +------------ +Cheetah, like Python, is an object-oriented language if you so choose to +use it in that fashion. That is to say that you can use Cheetah in with +object-oriented principles *or* you can use Cheetah in a strictly functional +sense, like Python, Cheetah does not place restrictions on these barriers. + +While Cheetah is not strictly Python, it was designed as such to interoperate, +particularly with the notion of classes, with Python itself. In effect you can +define Python classes that inherit and extend from Cheetah-derived classes and +vice versa. For this, Cheetah defines a few **directives** (denoted with the `\#` +hash-mark) that are of some help, the most important one being the `\#extends` +directive, with others playing important roles like `\#import`, `\#attr` and `\#super` + +In this recipe/tutorial I intend to explain and define a few key inheritance +patterns with Cheetah, being: + +* A Cheetah Template inheriting from Python +* Python inheriting from a Cheetah Template +* Cheetah Templates and "*mixins*" + +This document also operates on the assumption that the reader is at least +somewhat familiar with the basic tenets of object-oriented programming in +Python. + + +Cheetah inheriting from Python +------------------------------ +Whether or not you are aware of it, Cheetah templates are always inheriting from +a Python class by default. Unless otherwise denoted, Cheetah templates are compiled +to Python classes that subclass from the `Cheetah.Template.Template` class. + +What if you would like to introduce your own Template base class? Easily acheived by +defining your own Template class in a Python module, for example:: + + import Cheetah.Template + + class CookbookTemplate(Cheetah.Template.Template): + _page = 'Cookbook' + author = 'R. Tyler Ballance' + def pageName(self): + return self._page or 'Unknown' + +**Figure 1. cookbook.py** + +For this example, I want all my subclasses of the `CookbookTemplate` to define a +page author which will be used in some shared rendering code, to accomplish this +my templates will need to subclass from `CookbookTemplate` explicitly instead of +implicitly subclassing from `Cheetah.Template.Template`:: + + #import cookbook + #extends cookbook.CookbookTemplate + #attr author = 'Tavis Rudd' + + ## The rest of my recipe template would be below + +**Figure 2. recipe1.tmpl** + + diff --git a/www/recipes/precompiled.rst b/www/recipes/precompiled.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4480724 --- /dev/null +++ b/www/recipes/precompiled.rst @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +Precompiled Templates +===================== + +Why bother? +----------- +Since Cheetah supports two basic modes: dynamic and precompiled templates, you have +a lot of options when it comes to utilizing Cheetah, particularly in web environments. + +There is added speed to be gained by using pre-compiled templates, especially when +using mod_python with Apache. Precompiling your templates means Apache/mod_python +can load your template's generated module into memory and then execution is only +limited by the speed of the Python being executed, and not the Cheetah compiler. +You can further optimize things by then pre-compiling the generated Python files +(.py) down to Python byte-code (.pyc) so save cycles interpreting the Python. + + +Basic Pre-compilation +--------------------- +Suppose you have a template that looks something like this:: + + #attr title = "This is my Template" + <html> + <head> + <title>\${title}</title> + </head> + <body> + Hello \${who}! + </body> + </html> +**Figure 1. hello.tmpl** + +In order to compile this down to a Python file, you need to only execute the +`cheetah compile hello.tmpl` command. The results will be a Python file (.py) +which you can then treat as any other Python module in your code base. + + +Importing and lookup +-------------------- +Typically for the template in *Figure 1*, I could easily import it post-compilation +as any other Python module:: + + from templates import hello + + def myMethod(): + tmpl = hello.hello(searchList=[{'who' : 'world'}]) + results = tmpl.respond() + +**Figure 2. runner.py** + +*Note:* If you use the `\#implements` directive, `respond` may not be your "main +method" for executing the Cheetah template. You can adjust the example above in +*Figure 2* by using `getattr()` to make the lookup of the main method dynamic:: + + def myMethod(): + tmpl = hello.hello(searchList=[{'who' : 'world'}]) + mainMethod = getattr(tmpl, '_mainCheetahMethod_for_%s' % tmpl.__class__.__name__) + results = getattr(tmpl, mainMethod)() + +**Figure 3. Dynamic runner.py** diff --git a/www/recipes/staticmethod.rst b/www/recipes/staticmethod.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..53192e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/www/recipes/staticmethod.rst @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +@staticmethod and @classmethod +============================== + +Refer the Python's documentation if you're unfamiliar with either +`@staticmethod <http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#staticmethod>`_ or +`@classmethod <http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#classmethod>`_ and their uses in Python, as they +pertain to their uses in Cheetah as well. Using `@staticmethod <http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#staticmethod>`_ it's +trivial to create *utility templates* which are common when using +Cheetah for web development. These *utility templates* might contain +a number of small functions which generate useful snippets of markup. + +For example:: + + #def copyright() + #import time + © CheetahCorp, Inc. $time.strftime('%Y', time.gmtime()) + #end def + +**Figure 1, util.tmpl** + +Prior to version **v2.2.0** of Cheetah, there wasn't really an easy means +of filling templates with bunches of these small utility functions. In +**v2.2.0** however, you can decorate these methods with `#@staticmethod` +and use "proper" Python syntax for calling them, **fig 1** revisited:: + + #@staticmethod + #def copyright() + #import time + © CheetahCorp, Inc. $time.strftime('%Y', time.gmtime()) + #end def + +**Figure 1.1, util.tmpl** + +With the addition of the `@staticmethod <http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#staticmethod>`_ decorator, the `copyright()` +function can now be used without instantiating an instance of the `util` +template class. In effect:: + + #from util import util + + <strong>This is my page</strong> + <br/> + <hr noshade/> + $util.copyright() + +**Figure 2, index.tmpl** + + +This approach is however no means to structure anything complex, +`@staticmethod <http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#staticmethod>`_ and `@classmethod <http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#classmethod>`_ use in Cheetah is not meant as a +replacement for properly structured class hierarchies (which +Cheetah supports). That said if you are building a web application +`@staticmethod <http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#staticmethod>`_/`@classmethod <http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#classmethod>`_ are quite useful for the little snippets +of markup, etc that are needed (Google AdSense blocks, footers, +banners, etc). diff --git a/www/recipes/writing_a_recipe.rst b/www/recipes/writing_a_recipe.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6b1cbaa --- /dev/null +++ b/www/recipes/writing_a_recipe.rst @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +Writing a "Recipe" +================= + +This document isn't quite there yet ;) diff --git a/www/roadmap.rst b/www/roadmap.rst index a78709a..48fe964 100644 --- a/www/roadmap.rst +++ b/www/roadmap.rst @@ -1,2 +1,27 @@ Cheetah Roadmap =============== + +Cheetah v2.2 +------------ +The first release in the v2.2 series (*v2.2.0*) introduced an overhaul of +Cheetah's string handling to convert everything internally to use `unicode()` +objects instead of encoded string buffers. + +The subsequent releases in the v2.2 series are planned to have a number of +important upgrades to Cheetah's infrastructure: + +* Built-in Django support +* Cleaner code generation +* Finish and document #defmacro support + +Cheetah v2.3 +------------ +*still in planning* + +The third major series in the Cheetah 2 line of releases will have one focal point, **performance** + +Cheetah v3.0 +------------ +*still in planning* + +Cheetah 3000 will be the seminal milestone for running Cheetah on Python 3.0 |