Mako actually provides a VERY nice way to track down errors in a template: from mako import exceptions try: template = lookup.get_template(uri) print template.render() except: print exceptions.html_error_template().render()
I personally prefer Jinja2’s syntax over Mako’s. Take this example from the Mako website <%inherit file=”base.html”/> <% rows = [[v for v in range(0,10)] for row in range(0,10)] %> <table> % for row in rows: ${makerow(row)} % endfor </table> <%def name=”makerow(row)”> <tr> % for name in row: <td>${name}</td>\ % endfor </tr> </%def> There are so … Read more
Here are the results of the popular template engines for rendering a 10×1000 HTML table. Python 2.6.2 on a 3GHz Intel Core 2 Kid template 696.89 ms Kid template + cElementTree 649.88 ms Genshi template + tag builder 431.01 ms Genshi tag builder 389.39 ms Django template 352.68 ms Genshi template 266.35 ms ElementTree 180.06 … Read more