SVN: r25825 - trunk/quixote/doc

Author: dbinger
Date: 2005-01-05 08:33:33 -0500 (Wed, 05 Jan 2005)
New Revision: 25825

Modified:
   trunk/quixote/doc/PTL.txt
Log:
Remove $-substitution docs.  Add not about other import-order requirements.


Modified: trunk/quixote/doc/PTL.txt
===================================================================
--- trunk/quixote/doc/PTL.txt	2005-01-05 13:25:58 UTC (rev 25824)
+++ trunk/quixote/doc/PTL.txt	2005-01-05 13:33:33 UTC (rev 25825)
@@ -220,22 +220,7 @@
 Python and a second one implemented as a C extension.  Both versions
 have seen production use.  
 
-$-substitution in templates.
-----------------------------
 
-In Quixote 2, ptl was modified to provide automatic $-substitution
-in literals in templates.  The substitution works like Python 2.4's
-string.Template class, except that it is implemented by a compile-time
-transformation.  The transformation causes expressions like 
-
-  '<h1>${title}</h1>' or '<h1>$title</h1>'
-
-to mean 
-
-  ('<h1>%(title)s</h1>' % vars())
-
-To escape this transformation, use '$$' to replace '$'.
-
 PTL modules
 -----------
 
@@ -252,7 +237,8 @@
 (Note: if you're using ZODB, always import ZODB *before* installing the
 PTL import hook.  There's some interaction which causes importing the
 TimeStamp module to fail when the PTL import hook is installed; we
-haven't debugged the problem.)
+haven't debugged the problem.  A similar problem has been reported for
+BioPython and win32com.client imports.)
 
 Once the import hook is installed, PTL files can be imported as if they
 were Python modules.  If all the example templates shown here were put
@@ -276,5 +262,3 @@
 
 This is useful if you want to interactively play with a PTL module.
 
-
-$Id$