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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 ``{{this}}`` 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.
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