Cheetah - The Python-Powered Template Engine

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The most recent stable release was 1.0 on Dec 4, 2005. Don't let the version number fool you. Cheetah has been stable, production quality, post-beta code since 2001. All new releases since then (40+) have been almost 100% backwards compatible.

The most recent development release was 2.0rc6 on Feb 4, 2006.

Here's the documentation on recent changes.

You can also get the current unreleased development version of Cheetah from our CVS repository.

Cheetah is included in FreeBSD and most major Linux distributions: Gentoo, Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu among others.

IMPORTANT NOTE TO WINDOWS USERS: If you are using windows and Python 2.4, you should either use one of the .exe releases or grab _namemapper.pyd from the 0.9.17rc1 release and install it wherever your system puts Cheetah/NameMapper.py. This is a compiled copy of the C version of NameMapper (provided by Kevin Dangoor). Using it results in dramatic performance benefits.

Cheetah was created by Tavis Rudd, a freelance programmer and designer, with contributions from many open source volunteers.
Its documentation is edited by Mike Orr, who also wrote its command line tool.