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wheezy template: static website generator

Sometimes you need a quick way to generate a static web site and put it up on a server. Here is how you can generate a static website with wheezy.template. Let's suppose the following structure of the site:

 content/
 `- index.html
  - main.html
  shared/
  `- master.html
   snippet/
   `- script.html
    - widget.html

Python Templates Benchmark

Python template engines offer high reusability of markup code and the following features are used by content developers most of the time:

• Includes: useful to incorporate some snippets of content that in most cases are common to the site, e.g. footer, scripts, styles, etc.
• Extends: useful to define a master layout for the majority of the site content with placeholders, e.g. sidebar, horizontal menu, content, etc. The content developers extend the master layout by substituting available placeholders.
• Widgets: usually small snippets of highly reusable markup, e.g. list item, button, etc. The content developers use widgets to increase readability and enforce consistency of design.

We will examine all mentioned features above. Test is executed in isolated environment using CPython 2.7. Latest available versions (April 2, 2015):

1. django 1.8
2. jinja2 2.7.3
3. mako 1.0.1
4. tenjin 1.1.1
5. tornado 4.1
6. wheezy.template 0.1.159

Includes & Extends: in this test case an initial version of HTML content is refactored to use include and extend features of respective template engine.

Widgets: the test case is around how widget is built and used.

02-single - a widget is built in a way that loop is inside; 03-loop - a widget represent an item that is rendered in a loop.

Python Fastest Template Engine

What is the fastest template system for Python? See also:

• Comprehensive benchmarks for various template include, extends and widget directives are here.

The benchmark is based on wheezy.template big table test for rendering a 10x1000 HTML table in unicode. Latest available versions (April 2, 2015):

1. bottle 0.12.8
2. chameleon 2.22
3. cheetah 2.4.4
4. django 1.8
5. jinja2 2.7.3
6. mako 1.0.1
7. durusworks qpy 1.2
8. spitfire 0.7.15
9. tenjin 1.1.1
10. tornado 4.1
11. web2py 2.0.9
12. wheezy.template 0.1.159

Let setup virtualenv environment:

virtualenv env
env/bin/easy_install -O2 bottle chameleon cheetah django \
  jinja2 mako tenjin webext tornado wheezy.html \
  wheezy.template

Download bigtable.py test:

wget https://bitbucket.org/akorn/wheezy.template/raw/tip/demos/bigtable/bigtable.py

And run it:

env/bin/python bigtable.py