On Nov 7, 2005, at 3:30 AM, Shalabh Chaturvedi wrote:

> I'm trying to write Quixote applications that can be re-used
> easily. So I do not want to bind the PTL templates tightly with my
> site header, footer and other standard 'pieces' of a page. My
> current strategy is to use:
>
> import pageui
>
> def someview [html] ():
>     pageui.header()
>
>     ...
>
>     pageui.footer()
>
> And not include pageui.ptl in this package at all. The user of this
> app then has to create pageui.ptl and make sure it is in the
> pythonpath. This allows me (and others) to re-use the application
> with different headers, footers and such.
>
> 1. Is this a good approach?

Dulcinea uses a pattern pretty much like this one.
The site-specific module there is called "local_ui".
It works fine.

If you use this pattern, I would suggest that you also
provide (as Dulcinea does not) clear documentation of
what the pageui module must provide, and maybe
even some method of verifying that a given pageui
module really does provide the functions that
it should.