Embed Python in HTML?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Sean Hammond wrote:

> Forgive my ignorance, but I sometimes write custom dynamic web-pages
> using PHP, by simply embedding PHP in HTML with <?php ?> tags, and
> renaming for example index.html to index.php and making it executable. I
> only use this for very minor things like calling a script, and don't
> really want to learn any more PHP as it looks awful. So I was wondering,
> is it possible to throw together dynamic web pages like this using
> Python or other languages?

sure, and an endless number of programmers have provided their own 
favourite way to do this:

http://wiki.python.org/moin/Templating
http://www.google.com/search?q=python+server+pages
http://www.google.com/search?q=python+template+languages

and so on.  if you want to roll your own, see:

http://jtauber.com/2006/05/templates.html
http://blog.ianbicking.org/templating-via-dict-wrappers.html

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