[Tutor] Template long text substitution

[Serdar Tumgoren]

Stefan,

Have you considered a templating engine such as Jinja or Cheetah?

http://jinja.pocoo.org/2/
www.cheetahtemplate.org/

They should be able to handle a lot of the parsing and pairing of
variables in a template that you're attempting. Basically, you use
template syntax (as you seem to have created on your own), and then
simply fill in those variables by passing in a "context", or
dictionary of objects.

The great thing about these templating engines is that they come
pre-packaged with standard looping constructs, so you don't have to
reinvent that wheel. I've been tinkering with Jinja and can't say
enough about it.

HTH,

Serdar