I've been thinking about templating for a while now. Here my thoughts, and here's what they make.

It's only two evenings work so far, so don't expect too much. Like lots of examples or docs or any consideration of real use cases.

I used lxml for this; the killer feature is HTML parsing:

from lxml import etree
parsed_html = etree.HTML(html_string)

That's darn easy, and none of that Tidy crap (it was still cool in 1999, but I've way over Tidy by 2006).