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Notes on App Engine

Google App Engine

See http://code.google.com/appengine/

App Engine provides hosting of Python applications in a restricted environment. Currently Genshi does not work in this environment, because it depends on the parser module and some other things which are not available.

Work has started on providing a version of Genshi that works on App Engine on the branches/experimental/appengine/ branch. However, even when completed, this version is somewhat limited (or at least different), with the following features not available:

  • Proper error reporting on errors in template expressions and code blocks.
  • Interchangeable use of foo.bar and foo['bar'] in template expressions.
  • Assignment to nested tuples in py:for and py:with
  • Automatic decoding of non-ASCII string literals in template expressions.