flask_less

A Flask extension for lesscpy python less compiler.

Install:

- With pip

• pip install Flask-Less
  

- From the source:

• git clone https://github.com/mrf345/flask_less.git
  
• cd flask_less
  
• python setup.py install

Setup:

- Inside Flask app:

from flask import Flask, render_template
from flask_less import lessc

app = Flask(__name__)
lessc(app)

- Inside jinja template:

{% block head %}
  {{ cssify('static/main.less') }}
{% endblock %}

results in:

<link ref="stylesheet" href="static/main.css" />

Options:

The accepted arguments to be passed to the lessc.cssify() function are as follow:

def __init__(self,
  app=None, # Flask app instance
  minify=True, # To minify the css file
  spaces=True, # To remove spaces from the css file
  tabs=False, # to remove tabs from the css file
  inTag=True # to return the css file link in link html tag
):

Credit:

• lesscpy: Awesome Python less compiler.