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Asked: 2026-05-11T03:18:29+00:00

I really like the Mako templating system that’s used in Pylons and a couple

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I really like the Mako templating system that’s used in Pylons and a couple other Python frameworks, and my only complaint is how much WS leaks through even a simple inheritance scheme.

Is there anyway to accomplish below, without creating such huge WS gaps… or packing my code in like I started to do with base.mako?

Otherwise to get a grip on what I’m trying to accomplish with below.

Base is kind of like interface class for all views for the entire application, layout is just a prototype idea for 3-4 different layout files ( tables, pure CSS, etc ), and controller/action is a test to make sure my idea’s are sane.

Short summary of question: How to cut out the WS created in my Mako scheme?

Update: Is not a solution because it involves seeding all of my mako files with \’s http://www.makotemplates.org/docs/syntax.html#syntax_newline

/base.mako 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN'  'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd'> <html>   <head><%def name='headtags()'></%def>${self.headtags()}</head>   <body>     <%def name='header()'></%def>${self.header()}${next.body()}<%def name='footer()'></%def>${self.footer()}   </body> </html>

/layout.mako

<%inherit file='/base.mako'/> <%def name='headtags()'>    ${parent.headtags()}    <script src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/prototype/1.6.0.3/prototype.js'></script> </%def> <%def name='header()'>   <h1>My Blogination</h1> </%def> <div id='content'>${next.body()}</div>

/controller/action.mako

<%inherit file='/layout.mako' /> <%def name='headtags()'>         <title> Hello world, templating system is 1 percent done</title>     ${parent.headtags()} </%def> Hello ${c.name}!

rendered output:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN' 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd'> <html>   <head>         <title> Hello world, templating system is 1 percent done</title>     <script src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/prototype/1.6.0.3/prototype.js'></script>   </head>   <body>    <h1>My Blogination</h1>   <div id='content'>  Hello Anonymous!  </div>    </body> </html>
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  1. Found my own answer http://docs.makotemplates.org/en/latest/filtering.html

    It still required some trial and error, but using

    t = TemplateLookup(directories=['/tmp'], default_filters=['trim'])

    dramatically cut down on whitespace bleed. Additional savings can be found by checking the compiled template’s and looking for any writes that are just pushing ‘ ‘ or similar.

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