Welcome to Curtain’s documentation!

Curtain is a simple, small templating language. Its characteristics are:

• Supports just about the same features of TAL and METAL together with the Zope internationalization extensions.
• Is compiled [1].
• Allows incremental production of code through a SAX event generator. In fact, Curtain could be better described as a SAX event processor, since SAX events are both its input and output.

If you want to use Curtain, you should go to the Installing Curtain chapter.

Bugs

If you find a bug, we would love to hear about it so to fix it. You can find our bugtracking system at http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/curtain. In order to be helpful what you can do is, in order of increasing awesomeness:

• A plain bug report, writing a ticket which describe the problem.
• Attaching also a minimal, working example which shows the problem in question.
• Writing a patch against the latest SVN sources which solves the problem.
• Writing a test case which checks for regressions.

Blog

If you want to keep in touch about Curtain development, you can also give a look at the Curtain blog, and perhaps subscribe to RSS feed.

Table of contents

• Installing Curtain
  • Download
  • Installation
• Programming interface
  • curtain – Main curtain module
• Language specification
  • Base language
  • Macro system
  • Internationalization
• Frameworks integration
  • repoze.bfg
• Glossary
• Changelog
  • 0.3
  • 0.2
  • 0.1

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page

Footnotes

[1]	The template is compiled once to Python code, then to bytecode through Python’s own mechanisms of code evaluation. There is not yet a support for saving the compiled version to a file for caching.