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atocha: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

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A list of some frequently asked questions, with answers.

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What is htmlout? Why is it not included with Atocha?

htmlout is a simplistic library to perform HTML output from Python, similar to Nevow's Stan library. It is also written by the author of Atocha, but never has had the time to clean it up enough to want to share it. It is still changing and requires some review before making it open source.

However, the renderers for htmlout that come with Atocha can serve as a nice basis for creating other renderers which also use trees of nodes to create html output.

Do I need htmlout?

No. You can use the text renderers that comes with Atocha or write your own renderer if you want.

How does Atocha compare with FormEncode?

FormEncode is a nice effort, which aims at solving the very same problem as this project. My personal views on FormEncode, with respect to Atocha:

That being said, I did not really make a huge effort to try to use FormEncode, at the time when I discovered it I had almost finished my library.