Audience
Template library solution written in Python for developers
About Mako
It provides a familiar, non-XML syntax that compiles into Python modules for maximum performance. Mako's syntax and API borrows from the best ideas of many others, including Django and Jinja2 templates, Cheetah, Myghty, and Genshi. Conceptually, Mako is an embedded Python (i.e. Python Server Page) language, which refines the familiar ideas of componentized layout and inheritance to produce one of the most straightforward and flexible models available, while also maintaining close ties to Python calling and scoping semantics. As templates are ultimately compiled into Python bytecode, Mako's approach is extremely efficient and was originally written to be just as fast as Cheetah. Today, Mako is very close in speed to Jinja2, which uses a similar approach and for which Mako was an inspiration. Can access variables from their enclosing scope as well as the template's request context