cpp replaced by m4?

[Kent Johnson]

Mark E. Mallett wrote:
> That 'cog' hack looks interesting, although I am leery of such things
> that modify their own source files.  A similar hack is 'ptml' which also
> executes embedded python in templates and produces text output. 

Actually any of the myriad template languages that support unstructured 
text output (i.e. not limited to XML or some other strict format) should 
work as well. Many Python choices here, I imagine there are similar 
lists for perl, Ruby, etc.
http://wiki.python.org/moin/Templating

Kent