ANN: Munch 0.2 -- Embed Python in template text as markup (was ANN: Munch 0.1 ...)

[Erik Max Francis]

A new version is available:  It supports specifying the prefix character
to something other than @, and properly refusing to expand a None as an
expression evaluation so that proper procedures (functions evaluated for
side effects not return value) can be used.  The full information
follows.

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Summary

    Munch is a system for embedding Python expressions and statements
    in template text (or any other unexecuted content); it takes
    source files, processes them, and produces output.  These are done
    via expansions, which are snippets of Python code delimited by
    special characters involving a special character (by default the @
    at sign), and are substituted in the output with the return value
    (for expressions) or with any in-Python printing to stdout that
    takes place (for both expressions and statements).  If the value
    of an evaluated expression is None, nothing is expanded (that is,
    it acts like the interactive Python interpeter).  Textual data not
    explicitly delimited in this way is sent unmolested to the output
    file, allowing Python to be used effectively as a markup language.
    Explicit expansion within Python code is possible.  Also supported
    are m4-style diversions, where output can be systematically
    deferred and recalled.

    Expressions are embedded in text with the '@(...)' notation; as a
    shortcut, simple variables and expressions can be abbreviated as
    '@variable', '@object.attribute', '@array' [index], or
    '@function(arguments)'.  Full-fledged statements are embedded with
    '@{...}'.


Getting the software

    The software is available in a tarball here:
    http://www.alcyone.com/pyos/munch/munch-0.2.tar.gz.

    The official URL for this Web site is
    http://www.alcyone.com/pyos/munch/.


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