Re: [Tutor] Template long text substitution

2009-08-24 Thread Dave Angel
Stefan Lesicnik wrote: Hi Guys, I am trying to do the following, and im not sure how to deal with a blob of text. I have the following file i am using as a template %%NAME%% %%NUMBER%% %%REPORT%% and i have a corresponding file with values name="bob" number="123" report="report is long and s

Re: [Tutor] Template long text substitution

2009-08-24 Thread 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 c

[Tutor] Template long text substitution

2009-08-24 Thread Stefan Lesicnik
Hi Guys, I am trying to do the following, and im not sure how to deal with a blob of text. I have the following file i am using as a template %%NAME%% %%NUMBER%% %%REPORT%% and i have a corresponding file with values name="bob" number="123" report="report is long and spans multiple lines. It a