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Better project template for Google App Engine

I’ve been playing around with Google App Engine quite a bit lately. Whenever I’d create a new project, I’d start by copying and pasting a folder called “new_project_template” which is included in the software developers kit. The template contains a bare-minimum hello world script. As I made more and more apps, I realized that I [...]

Posted 13 March 2009 † admin § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Dumb App Engine Shortcuts

I like using App Engine’s webapp framework. It’s very simple and similar to the web.py framework. However, simple tasks such as outputting data or rendering templates require way too much boilerplate text. For example, to output a rendered template, you must type:

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template_values = {
‘greetings’: greetings,
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Posted 11 February 2009 † admin § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,