Non-web-based templating system

[Larry Bates]

qscomputing at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm creating a small application in Python that uses lists and
> dictionaries to create a rudimentary database. I'd like to create some
> "fill-in-the-blanks" reports from this data, ideally by taking an RTF
> or plaintext file as a template and replacing placeholder tags with my
> data.
> Are there any good pre-written systems that would allow me to do this?
> 
> Thanks,
>   - QS Computing.
> 

It may be overkill for your application but if you are looking for
high quality .PDF output this combination works:

ReportLab PageCatcher - reads .PDF background templates (note: not free)
ReportLab - allows you to write on top of the .PDF template to produce
            a .PDF file as output.

The results are a very high quality .PDF output document.

-Larry Bates