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NeonTAL is an implementation of Zope's Page Templates with a simple interface that makes it easy to start using. There are some deviations from the Zope spec, which is documented in the source code package. NeonTAL's TAL implementation is built using a basic plug-in style interface, making it relatively easy to add new tal types specific to your application. NeonTAL also supports both lists and iterators in repeat statements. (Iterator support was the main impetus to start the project a few years ago.)

NeonTAL's been used in a number of personal projects of mine before I decided it was time to let the rest of the internet look at it.

Example

NeonTAL is easy to use. The following example loads two files with macros, before compiling the main output template.

>>> import neontal
>>> my_dict = { 'name':'John', 'city':'Lowell', 'state':'MA' }
>>> nt = neontal.NeonTAL( my_dict )
>>> nt.include( 'main_macros.pt', 'main_macros' )
>>> nt.include( 'extra_macros.pt', 'extra_macros' )
>>> nt.compile( 'my_template.pt' )
>>> nt.generate( 'my_ouput.html' )

If you wanted to load your template and/or macros before creating a data dictionary, simply create a NeonTAL object without arguments. Then, call the setData( dict ) function before calling generate.