pystache 0.3.0

Mustache for Python

Inspired by ctemplate and et, Mustache is a framework-agnostic way to render logic-free views.

As ctemplates says, “It emphasizes separating logic from presentation: it is impossible to embed application logic in this template language.”

Pystache is a Python implementation of Mustache. It has been tested with Python 2.6.1.

Documentation

The different Mustache tags are documented at mustache(5).

Use It

>>> import pystache
>>> pystache.render('Hi {{person}}!', {'person': 'Mom'})
'Hi Mom!'

You can also create dedicated view classes to hold your view logic.

Here’s your simple.py:

import pystache
class Simple(pystache.View):
    def thing(self):
        return "pizza"

Then your template, simple.mustache:

Hi {{thing}}!

Pull it together:

>>> Simple().render()
'Hi pizza!'

Test It

nose works great!

easy_install nose
cd pystache
nosetests

Author

context = { 'author': 'Chris Wanstrath', 'email': '[e-mail]' }
pystache.render("{{author}} :: {{email}}", context)

History

0.3.0 (2010-05-03)

• View.template_path can now hold a list of path

• Add {{& blah}} as an alias for {{{ blah }}}

• Higher Order Sections

• Inverted sections

0.2.0 (2010-02-15)

• Bugfix: Methods returning False or None are not rendered

• Bugfix: Don’t render an empty string when a tag’s value is 0. [enaeseth]

• Add support for using non-callables as View attributes. [joshthecoder]

• Allow using View instances as attributes. [joshthecoder]

• Support for Unicode and non-ASCII-encoded bytestring output. [enaeseth]

• Template file encoding awareness. [enaeseth]

0.1.1 (2009-11-13)

• Ensure we’re dealing with strings, always

• Tests can be run by executing the test file directly

0.1.0 (2009-11-12)

• First release