Non-web-based templating system

[Brett g Porter]

Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
> qscomputing at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> Maybe the built-in string interpolation is sufficient?
> 
> print "Hello %(name)s" % dict(name="Peter Pan")


Or in recent pythons, the built-in string templating system (see 
http://docs.python.org/lib/node109.html)


 >>> from string import Template
 >>> d = dict(name="Barney")
 >>> s = Template("Hello $name")
 >>> s.substitute(d)
'Hello Barney'