Does anyone know of a Python equivalent of FMPP?

Question

Does anyone know of a Python equivalent for FMPP the text file preprocessor?

Follow up: I am reading the docs and looking at the examples for the suggestions given. Just to expand. My usage of FMPP is to read in a data file (csv) and use multiple templates depending on that data to create multi page reports in html all linked to a main index.

Answer 1

You could give Cheetah a try. I've used it before with some success.

Answer 2

Python has lots of templating engines. It depends on your exact needs.

Jinja2 is a good one, for example. Kid is another.

Answer 3

Let me add Mako Fine fast tool (and it even uses ${var} syntax).

Note: Mako, Jinja and Cheetah are textual languages (they process and generate text). I'd order them Mako > Jinja > Cheetah (in term of features and readability), but people's preferences vary.

Kid and it's successor Genshi are HTML/XML aware attribute languages (<div py:if="variable"> ... </div> etc ). That's completely different methodology - and tools suitable for HTML or XML only.

Answer 4

I'm not sure exactly what FMPP does, but from a quick glance it seems like a template language.

Jinja2 is an excellent template system for python.

sample:

<ul>
    {% for item in list %}
    <li> {{ item.title }} </li>
    {% endfor %}
</ul>

{% if user.is_admin() %}
    <a href="./edit">Edit this page</a>
{% endif %}