Playing with a new TemplateParser

Hi all,

I'm playing with an alternative TemplateParser. This is a very much 
simpler version of what I had before - but in some ways more expressive. 
I've ditched the whacky pseudo-python templating language (that I noticed 
no-one was using anyway, in favour of just embedding some 'print' 
statements) and have switched to using pure Python grammar.

You need to be a lot more careful about your spacing of course, but the 
results look pretty cool. I've attached an example template below. I find 
it helps to think of '%>...<%' bracketing bits of output rather than 
'<%...%>' bracketing bits of code.

I'm looking for comments on whether I should jazz this up and replace the 
one in Ark or not.

:-j


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<%

import string

script = 'This'
status = 'test'

def check(colour):
    if colour == "red":
       %>Red's my favourite colour<%
    else:
       %>The colour was 100% <%=colour%>!<%

%>
<%= script %> is a <%= string.upper(status) %>:
<%
check('red')
%>

And this is another:
<%
check('green')
%>

Here's an interesting one, let's do something with a try...except block.
<%
try:
    %>This will fail for sure: <%= broken_thing %><%
except:
    %>Sure enough, the thing broke. But we caught it!

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The result of running this is:


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This is a TEST:
Red's my favourite colour

And this is another:
The colour was 100% green!

Here's an interesting one, let's do something with a try...except block.
Sure enough, the thing broke. But we caught it!

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