Cheetah (or CheetahTemplate) is a template engine that uses the

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. It can be used standalone or combined with other tools and frameworks. It is often used for

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and

dynamic web content A server-side dynamic web page is a web page whose construction is controlled by an application server processing server-side scripts. In server-side scripting, parameters determine how the assembly of every new web page proceeds, and includin ...

by generating

HTML The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScri ...

, but can also be used to generate source code. Cheetah is

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licensed under the

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. Templating engines encourage clean separation of content, graphic design, and program code. This leads to more modular, flexible, and reusable site architectures, shorter development time, and code that is easier to understand and maintain. Cheetah compiles templates into optimized, yet readable, Python code. It gives template authors full access to any Python data and functionality, while providing a way for administrators to selectively restrict access to Python when needed. Cheetah is included in the FreeBSD Ports collection and several

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distributions: Gentoo,

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, and

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among others.

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ONLamp.com tutorial

Dev Shed tutorial
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