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1Cheetah is an open source template engine and code generation tool.
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3It can be used standalone or combined with other tools and frameworks. Web
4development is its principle use, but Cheetah is very flexible and is also being
5used to generate C++ game code, Java, sql, form emails and even Python code.
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7Documentation
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9For a high-level introduction to Cheetah please refer to the User\'s Guide
10at http://cheetahtemplate.org/learn.html
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12Mailing list
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14cheetahtemplate-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net
15Subscribe at http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cheetahtemplate-discuss
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17Credits
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19http://cheetahtemplate.org/credits.html
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21Praise
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23"I\'m enamored with Cheetah" - Sam Ruby, senior member of IBM Emerging
24Technologies Group & director of Apache Software Foundation
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26"Give Cheetah a try. You won\'t regret it. ... Cheetah is a truly powerful
27system. ... Cheetah is a serious contender for the 'best of breed' Python
28templating." - Alex Martelli
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30"People with a strong PHP background absolutely love Cheetah for being Smarty,
31but much, much better." - Marek Baczynski
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33"I am using Smarty and I know it very well, but compiled Cheetah Templates with
34its inheritance approach is much powerful and easier to use than Smarty." -
35Jaroslaw Zabiello
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37"There is no better solution than Cheetah" - Wilk
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39"A cheetah template can inherit from a python class, or a cheetah template, and
40a Python class can inherit from a cheetah template. This brings the full power
41of OO programming facilities to the templating system, and simply blows away
42other templating systems" - Mike Meyer
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44"Cheetah has successfully been introduced as a replacement for the overweight
45XSL Templates for code generation. Despite the power of XSL (and notably XPath
46expressions), code generation is better suited to Cheetah as templates are much
47easier to implement and manage." - The FEAR development team
48 (http://fear.sourceforge.net/docs/latest/guide/Build.html#id2550573)
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50"I\'ve used Cheetah quite a bit and it\'s a very good package" - Kevin Dangoor,
51lead developer of TurboGears.
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