Pystache ======== ![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/webdev_bucket/pystache.png "mustachioed, monocled snake by David Phillips") ![](https://secure.travis-ci.org/defunkt/pystache.png?branch=master,development) [Pystache](https://github.com/defunkt/pystache) is a Python implementation of [Mustache](http://mustache.github.com/). Mustache is a framework-agnostic, logic-free templating system inspired by [ctemplate](http://code.google.com/p/google-ctemplate/) and [et](http://www.ivan.fomichev.name/2008/05/erlang-template-engine-prototype.html). Like ctemplate, Mustache "emphasizes separating logic from presentation: it is impossible to embed application logic in this template language." The [mustache(5)](http://mustache.github.com/mustache.5.html) man page provides a good introduction to Mustache's syntax. For a more complete (and more current) description of Mustache's behavior, see the official [Mustache spec](https://github.com/mustache/spec). Pystache is [semantically versioned](http://semver.org) and can be found on [PyPI](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pystache). This version of Pystache passes all tests in [version 1.1.2](https://github.com/mustache/spec/tree/v1.1.2) of the spec. Logo: [David Phillips](http://davidphillips.us/) Requirements ------------ Pystache is tested with-- - Python 2.4 (requires simplejson [version 2.0.9](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson/2.0.9) or earlier) - Python 2.5 (requires [simplejson](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson/)) - Python 2.6 - Python 2.7 - Python 3.1 - Python 3.2 - [PyPy](http://pypy.org/) [Distribute](http://packages.python.org/distribute/) (the setuptools fork) is recommended over [setuptools](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools), and is required in some cases (e.g. for Python 3 support). If you use [pip](http://www.pip-installer.org/), you probably already satisfy this requirement. JSON support is needed only for the command-line interface and to run the spec tests. We require simplejson for earlier versions of Python since Python's [json](http://docs.python.org/library/json.html) module was added in Python 2.6. For Python 2.4 we require an earlier version of simplejson since simplejson stopped officially supporting Python 2.4 in simplejson version 2.1.0. Earlier versions of simplejson can be installed manually, as follows: pip install 'simplejson<2.1.0' Install It ---------- pip install pystache And test it-- pystache-test To install and test from source (e.g. from GitHub), see the Develop section. Use It ------ >>> import pystache >>> print pystache.render('Hi {{person}}!', {'person': 'Mom'}) Hi Mom! You can also create dedicated view classes to hold your view logic. Here's your view class (in .../examples/readme.py): class SayHello(object): def to(self): return "Pizza" Instantiating like so: >>> from pystache.tests.examples.readme import SayHello >>> hello = SayHello() Then your template, say\_hello.mustache (by default in the same directory as your class definition): Hello, {{to}}! Pull it together: >>> renderer = pystache.Renderer() >>> print renderer.render(hello) Hello, Pizza! For greater control over rendering (e.g. to specify a custom template directory), use the `Renderer` class like above. One can pass attributes to the Renderer class constructor or set them on a Renderer instance. To customize template loading on a per-view basis, subclass `TemplateSpec`. See the docstrings of the [Renderer](https://github.com/defunkt/pystache/blob/master/pystache/renderer.py) class and [TemplateSpec](https://github.com/defunkt/pystache/blob/master/pystache/template_spec.py) class for more information. You can also pre-parse a template: >>> parsed = pystache.parse(u"Hey {{#who}}{{.}}!{{/who}}") >>> print parsed [u'Hey ', _SectionNode(key=u'who', index_begin=12, index_end=18, parsed=[_EscapeNode(key=u'.'), u'!'])] And then: >>> print renderer.render(parsed, {'who': 'Pops'}) Hey Pops! >>> print renderer.render(parsed, {'who': 'you'}) Hey you! Python 3 -------- Pystache has supported Python 3 since version 0.5.1. Pystache behaves slightly differently between Python 2 and 3, as follows: - In Python 2, the default html-escape function `cgi.escape()` does not escape single quotes. In Python 3, the default escape function `html.escape()` does escape single quotes. - In both Python 2 and 3, the string and file encodings default to `sys.getdefaultencoding()`. However, this function can return different values under Python 2 and 3, even when run from the same system. Check your own system for the behavior on your system, or do not rely on the defaults by passing in the encodings explicitly (e.g. to the `Renderer` class). Unicode ------- This section describes how Pystache handles unicode, strings, and encodings. Internally, Pystache uses [only unicode strings](http://docs.python.org/howto/unicode.html#tips-for-writing-unicode-aware-programs) (`str` in Python 3 and `unicode` in Python 2). For input, Pystache accepts both unicode strings and byte strings (`bytes` in Python 3 and `str` in Python 2). For output, Pystache's template rendering methods return only unicode. Pystache's `Renderer` class supports a number of attributes to control how Pystache converts byte strings to unicode on input. These include the `file_encoding`, `string_encoding`, and `decode_errors` attributes. The `file_encoding` attribute is the encoding the renderer uses to convert to unicode any files read from the file system. Similarly, `string_encoding` is the encoding the renderer uses to convert any other byte strings encountered during the rendering process into unicode (e.g. context values that are encoded byte strings). The `decode_errors` attribute is what the renderer passes as the `errors` argument to Python's built-in unicode-decoding function (`str()` in Python 3 and `unicode()` in Python 2). The valid values for this argument are `strict`, `ignore`, and `replace`. Each of these attributes can be set via the `Renderer` class's constructor using a keyword argument of the same name. See the Renderer class's docstrings for further details. In addition, the `file_encoding` attribute can be controlled on a per-view basis by subclassing the `TemplateSpec` class. When not specified explicitly, these attributes default to values set in Pystache's `defaults` module. Develop ------- To test from a source distribution (without installing)-- python test_pystache.py To test Pystache with multiple versions of Python (with a single command!), you can use [tox](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/tox): pip install tox tox If you do not have all Python versions listed in `tox.ini`-- tox -e py26,py32 # for example The source distribution tests also include doctests and tests from the Mustache spec. To include tests from the Mustache spec in your test runs: git submodule init git submodule update The test harness parses the spec's (more human-readable) yaml files if [PyYAML](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyYAML) is present. Otherwise, it parses the json files. To install PyYAML-- pip install pyyaml To run a subset of the tests, you can use [nose](http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/0.11.1/testing.html): pip install nose nosetests --tests pystache/tests/test_context.py:GetValueTests.test_dictionary__key_present ### Using Python 3 with Pystache from source Pystache is written in Python 2 and must be converted to Python 3 prior to using it with Python 3. The installation process (and tox) do this automatically. To convert the code to Python 3 manually (while using Python 3)-- python setup.py build This writes the converted code to a subdirectory called `build`. By design, Python 3 builds [cannot](https://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/issue/292/allow-use_2to3-with-python-2) be created from Python 2. To convert the code without using setup.py, you can use [2to3](http://docs.python.org/library/2to3.html) as follows (two steps)-- 2to3 --write --nobackups --no-diffs --doctests_only pystache 2to3 --write --nobackups --no-diffs pystache This converts the code (and doctests) in place. To `import pystache` from a source distribution while using Python 3, be sure that you are importing from a directory containing a converted version of the code (e.g. from the `build` directory after converting), and not from the original (unconverted) source directory. Otherwise, you will get a syntax error. You can help prevent this by not running the Python IDE from the project directory when importing Pystache while using Python 3. Mailing List ------------ There is a [mailing list](http://librelist.com/browser/pystache/). Note that there is a bit of a delay between posting a message and seeing it appear in the mailing list archive. Authors ------- >>> context = { 'author': 'Chris Wanstrath', 'maintainer': 'Chris Jerdonek' } >>> print pystache.render("Author: {{author}}\nMaintainer: {{maintainer}}", context) Author: Chris Wanstrath Maintainer: Chris Jerdonek