recommended general-purpose string template packages?

[Ravi Teja]

> In general, I'm mainly interested in a template engine for dynamic web
> pages but would like a general purpose one to avoid learning yet
> another package for generating e-mail messages, form letters, source
> code, whatever.
>
> In particular, does anyone have much experience with the Python
> interface to Terence Parr's StringTemplate
> (http://www.stringtemplate.org/)? Reading the website, I'm attracted by
> the approach, but a Google search (both generally and in this
> newsgroup) gives me the impression that it's little used in the Python
> world.

Most Python templating engines are general purpose. Choice between them
however is sometimes a matter of preference, like editors. I settled
down on Cheetah for most part.

Here is a list of some popular ones.
http://wiki.python.org/moin/Templating