There are a number of very powerful template languages available in Python. Some template languages, such as Genshi , allow complex Python statements and even full Python code within the template file. Others, such as Django templates, prefer to restrict templates to presentation only and do not allow general Python expressions within the body of [...]

Which introductory programming language is better? Java or Python?

There are a number of (very good) templating systems and languages available for Python. They fall in to one of two camps; either they are XML based, like Genshi, or they are text based, like Mako. Most programmers favour one or the other, but there is far from a consensus over which is better. I'd like to use this debate to gather reasons for [...]