Chapter 3. Using Templates in Our Headlines Project
In the last chapter, we saw one way of combining static HTML with dynamic content for creating a web page. But it's messy, and we don't want to hack away at Python strings for building our web pages. Mixing HTML and Python is not ideal for a few reasons: for one, it means if we ever want to change static text, such as that which appears in our headings, we have to edit our Python files, which also involves reloading these files into Apache. If we hire frontend developers to work on HTML, we run the risk of them breaking the unfamiliar Python code by mistake, and it's far more difficult to structure any other frontend code such as JavaScript and CSS correctly. Ideally, we should aim for complete ...
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