spats 0.1

What is spats?

A SimplePAgeTemplateServer, credit goes to Leo for the name. Basically a way to make a web server, quickly and simply to serve dynamic stuff back to the server.

What does it do?

Serves compiled page templates back to the user. That’s all really, basically it takes the file on the file system and serves it back. If that file happens to be a page template it compiles it with simpletal and then spits it back to the user.

It’s not a CGI server (it doesn’t serve Python scripts back).

It’s not Zope, it doesn’t do any of that stuff Zope does. It’s simple.

It does GET and HEAD, that’s it.

It does not make good cups of tea.

Using

See example.py

Make a directory and put a start.py, that reads:

from spats import SimplePageTemplateServer
SimplePageTemplateServer.start()

This won’t do much however, you need to tell it where to read HTML from. So you can pass a config dictionary variable through of all the possible values.

So make a directory called say html or pt. Stick a PageTemplate, called say index.pt in there. Now pass that directory through and you are on your way:

from spats import SimplePageTemplateServer
config = {"html_dir":"html"}
SimplePageTemplateServer.start(config)

See SimplePageTemplateServer.py for a commented list of variables.

But it doesn’t do…?

So add it dude, its only a 200 line module. But keep it simple please, or goal is to be able to throw together things simply and quickly not rebuild Zope.