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SimpleTAL is a stand alone Python implementation of the TAL, TALES and METAL specifications used in Zope to power HTML and XML templates. SimpleTAL is an independent implementation of TAL; there are no dependencies on Zope nor is any of the Zope work re-used.

More here: http://www.owlfish.com/software/simpleTAL/

-- richard: Apart from being independent from Zope, what does it offer? Does it do the i18n stuff? Last time I looked it there was a part of the TAL spec unimplemented (though I don't recall what that was now). How does it compare in terms of speed (TAL is pretty fast).

-- johannes: Well, I was mostly thinking about speed. i18n isn't implemented in the default distribution, but a patch is available: http://webcleaner.sourceforge.net/devel/simpletal.html. I'm not sure whether it's any faster, but it might be worth looking into.