Nannou’s documentation

Nannou is a templating engine designed for html (but not only) codogeneration of complex objects with arbitrary structure. It based by pattern matching concept and influenced by refal and xslt languages.

Thus nannou forces better decomposition in templates and object model. In return certain complex cases may require additional hacks and decorations.

• Nannou tutorial
  • Step 1: Define object structure
  • Step 2: Writing template

Quickstart

Data

>>> data = {'foo': [{'bar':1, 'baz':2}, {'bar':None, 'baz':{'foo':'x x x'}}]}

Template

<!--/ foo -->
<div class="foo">
    <%foo%>
</div>

<!--/ bar baz -->
<span><|em><%bar%></em|>
    <%baz%>
</span>

Compiling

>>> import nannou
>>> f = nannou.compile(tmpl, {})

Running

>>> print f(data)

Produces

<div class="foo">
   <span><em>1</em>
       2
   </span>
   <span>
       <div class="foo">
             x x x
       </div>
   </span>
</div>

Installation

Nannou avaible wia PyPI

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/nannou/

Lastest version can be found in mercurial repository:

https://bitbucket.org/nyufac/nannou/

After downloading go to source folder and type:

make build

This build nannou package. After that you can type

python setup.py install

or

pip install dist/nannou-x.x.x.tar.gz

where x.x.x is current version.

Configuration

nannou.compile(template, rtl={}, debug=False)

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