Is there a native templating system for plain text files in Python?

Question

I am looking for either technique or templating system for Python for formatting output to simple text. What I require is that it will be able to iterate through multiple li

Answer 1

If your prefer to use something shipped with the standard library, take a look at the format string syntax. By default it is not able to format lists like in your output example, but you can handle this with a custom Formatter which overrides the convert_field method.

Supposed your custom formatter cf uses the conversion code l to format lists, this should produce your given example output:

cf.format("{title}\n{subtitle}\n\n{list!l}", title=title, subtitle=sibtitle, list=list)

Alternatively you could preformat your list using "\n".join(list) and then pass this to your normal template string.