Cool & Useful EmPy project, prior art?

[Erik Max Francis]

Ville Vainio wrote:

> What I'm planning seems to be a pretty "obvious", universally
> applicable application of empy (perhaps I should file for a patent if
> the EU chooses to shoot itself in the foot? ;-), and am wondering
> whether someone has already done such a beast? Perhaps with a GUI,
> even... I wouldn't mind doing it myself, it seems like a fun project,
> but time == money and something tried & true might already exist out
> there...

That seems quite reasonable, though I'm not familiar with any other
project which does anything similar.  (You can ask on the empy-list
mailing list to be sure.)  It does sound like something that could be
generalized to the point of getting its own unique markup, and which
would invoke behavior that can be overriden by the user -- i.e., a
special markup that says, "This information is needed from the user,
please retrieve it."  It certainly sounds like a reasonable enhancement
proposal that could be made and discussed on the mailing list.

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