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[nilamo]

Jinja2 is great.

I'll second jinja. It's exceptionally fast (not the fastest, but fast enough for almost all purposes), has pretty good syntax (but that's subjective, maybe you prefer how Mako looks), and supports inheritance (though any decent templating engine does).

If you need a template, though. If your goal is simply to wrap some text, it's a little bit overkill.