recommended general-purpose string template packages?

[John Machin]

Hi,

In general, I'm mainly interested in a template engine for dynamic web
pages but would like a general purpose one to avoid learning yet
another package for generating e-mail messages, form letters, source
code, whatever.

In particular, does anyone have much experience with the Python
interface to Terence Parr's StringTemplate
(http://www.stringtemplate.org/)? Reading the website, I'm attracted by
the approach, but a Google search (both generally and in this
newsgroup) gives me the impression that it's little used in the Python
world.

TIA,
John

[Ravi Teja]

In general, I'm mainly interested in a template engine for dynamic web

pages but would like a general purpose one to avoid learning yet
another package for generating e-mail messages, form letters, source
code, whatever.

In particular, does anyone have much experience with the Python
interface to Terence Parr's StringTemplate
(http://www.stringtemplate.org/)? Reading the website, I'm attracted by
the approach, but a Google search (both generally and in this
newsgroup) gives me the impression that it's little used in the Python
world.

Most Python templating engines are general purpose. Choice between them
however is sometimes a matter of preference, like editors. I settled
down on Cheetah for most part.

Here is a list of some popular ones.
http://wiki.python.org/moin/Templating

[metaperl]

John Machin wrote:

Hi,

In general, I'm mainly interested in a template engine for dynamic web
pages but would like a general purpose one to avoid learning yet
another package for generating e-mail messages, form letters, source
code, whatever.

HTMLTemplate and texttemplate offer a somewhat uniform approach to text
versus HTML... it attempts to raise string processing up to the level
of tree/HTML processing. That stringtemplate module seems to be aiming
for the lowest common denominator.

Interesting contrast in approaches:
http://freespace.virgin.net/hamish.sanderson/index.html

[Yu-Xi Lim]

Ravi Teja wrote:

Most Python templating engines are general purpose. Choice between them
however is sometimes a matter of preference, like editors. I settled
down on Cheetah for most part.

I second Cheetah. It's suitable for most text templates. Many others are
specific for XML or HTML documents.

[Dan Sommers]

On 13 Aug 2006 19:48:55 -0700,
"John Machin" <sj******@lexic on.netwrote:

In general, I'm mainly interested in a template engine for dynamic web
pages but would like a general purpose one to avoid learning yet
another package for generating e-mail messages, form letters, source
code, whatever.

And don't forget Python's Template class:

http://docs.python.org/lib/node109.html

Regards,
Dan

--
Dan Sommers
<http://www.tombstoneze ro.net/dan/>
"I wish people would die in alphabetical order." -- My wife, the genealogist

[vj]

I use preppy from reportlab:

http://www.reportlab.org/preppy.html

It's one file, is fast and can be easily embedded in any application.

Vineet

[metaperl]

vj wrote:

I use preppy from reportlab:

http://www.reportlab.org/preppy.html

wow. thanks for the link. I second you on pretty. It is ultra-simple
and nothing but a gateway to python.

also, reportlab makes a number of high-quality open source python
wares.