Cheetah3 is a free and open source (MIT) Python template engine. It's a fork of the original CheetahTemplate library.

Python 2.7 or 3.4+ is required.

Site: https://cheetahtemplate.org/

Download: https://pypi.org/project/CT3/

News and changes: https://cheetahtemplate.org/news.html

StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/cheetah

Mailing lists: https://sourceforge.net/p/cheetahtemplate/mailman/

Development: https://github.com/CheetahTemplate3

Developer Guide: https://cheetahtemplate.org/dev_guide/

Install:

$ pip install CT3 # (or even "ct3")

Below is a simple example of some Cheetah code, as you can see it's practically Python. You can import, inherit and define methods just like in a regular Python module, since that's what your Cheetah templates are compiled to :)

#from Cheetah.Template import Template
#extends Template

#set $people = [{'name' : 'Tom', 'mood' : 'Happy'}, {'name' : 'Dick',
                        'mood' : 'Sad'}, {'name' : 'Harry', 'mood' : 'Hairy'}]

<strong>How are you feeling?</strong>
<ul>
    #for $person in $people
        <li>
            $person['name'] is $person['mood']
        </li>
    #end for
</ul>