print/py-preppy 5.2.1 MidnightBSD

Preppy is ReportLab's templating system. It was developed in late 2000 and has been in continual production use since then. It is open source (BSD-license).

The key features are:

• *small*. Preppy is a single Python module. If you want a templating system 'in the box', it's easy to include it in your project
• *easy to learn*. It takes about one minute to scan all the features
• *just Python*. We have not invented another language, and if you want to do something - includes, quoting, filters - you just use Python
• *compiled to bytecode*: a .prep file gets compiled to a Python function in a .pyc file
• *easy to debug*: preppy generates proper Python exceptions, with the correct line numbers for the .prep file. You can follow tracebacks from Python script to Preppy template and back, through multiple includes
• *easy to type and read*. We've been using ```` syntax since well before Django was thought of
• *8-bit safe*: it makes no assumption that you are generating markup and does nothing unexpected with whitespace; you could use it to generate images or binary files if you wanted to.