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Well, it doesn't just appear to be an LFM, it was explicitly designed as such.

I don't think that the Python syntax is an inappropriate choice to be used as a fully enabled template language - you could bolt on <% end %> tags with a preprocessor that indents automatically pretty trivially. Such a template language just doesn't exist yet.



Read the quote again: that's the canonical definition of an LFM. It's a language that restricts the user's power, not by accident, but by design.


Sorry, I meant that the authors themselves say that it's designed as one - i.e. there's no 'appears to be' about it.

But not only was I unclear, in hindsight it was a total nitpick to boot. :)


Ah. Gotcha. Sorry for the misunderstanding.


I've seen a couple of implementations of "Python as a template language with 'end' statements" over the years. Here's one:

http://www.kryogenix.org/code/vellum/docs/templates.html

Another one is Python Server Pages:

http://www.ciobriefings.com/psp/

(Edited to fix typo.)


Thanks for the links. I wonder how long it will be until someone puts one in Django.




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