Introducing Zoolander

May 2nd, 2010

Zoolander is a pure Python mini language for writing Cascading Style Sheets. Because the Zoolander is pure Python, you leverage a variety of advantages over vanilla CSS:

• Higher levels of abstraction. Variables, mixins via dictionaries, arithmetic, higher-order mixins via functions. Anything Python does, Zoolander does too.
• Toolchain support. Python editor modes are far superior to the editor modes for css. Code navigation, syntax highlighting, refactoring, debuggers, pyflakes/pylint/flymake-mode, etc.
• Easy to grok. Go dig in the code yourself! Since Zoolander doesn't need to be parsed or lexed, text manipulation is kept to a minimum. The code base is small and readable, so you can send me pull requests on Github with minimal effort.

To get better acquainted with Zoolander and see a few examples, check out the project's page on Github.

PS: Zoolander's project page was Reddited. If I had an account with Reddit, I would tell them that you should have a plan for caching the rendered stylesheets (I thought this would be obvious), or just render once in your deployment script.

PPS: I have a handful of commits that will fix a couple of the bugs/feature requests in the issue tracker, unfortunately they are on my laptop, which just broke yesterday. Its going to be a couple days till I can get back inside my laptop and push the commits to Github.

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