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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2006 Mattew Good
+# All rights reserved.
+#
+# This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
+# you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
+# are also available at http://trac.edgewall.com/license.html.
+#
+# This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many
+# individuals. For the exact contribution history, see the revision
+# history and logs, available at http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/.
+
+import os
+from pkg_resources import resource_filename
+
+from markup.template import Context, Template, TemplateLoader
+
+
+class TemplateEnginePlugin(object):
+
+    def __init__(self, extra_vars_func=None, options=None):
+        if options is None:
+            options = {}
+        # TODO get loader_args from the options dict
+
+        self.loader = TemplateLoader(auto_reload=True)
+        self.options = options
+        self.get_extra_vars = extra_vars_func
+
+    def load_template(self, templatename):
+        """Find a template specified in python 'dot' notation."""
+        divider = templatename.rfind('.')
+        if divider >= 0:
+            package = templatename[:divider]
+            basename = templatename[divider + 1:] + '.html'
+            fullpath = resource_filename(package, basename)
+            dirname, templatename = os.path.split(fullpath)
+            self.loader.search_path.append(dirname) # Kludge
+
+        return self.loader.load(templatename)
+
+    def render(self, info, format='html', fragment=False, template=None):
+        """Renders the template to a string using the provided info."""
+        return self.transform(info, template).render(method=format)
+
+    def transform(self, info, template):
+        "Render the output to Elements"
+        if not isinstance(template, Template):
+            template = self.load_template(template)
+
+        data = {}
+        if self.get_extra_vars:
+            data.update(self.get_extra_vars())
+        data.update(info)
+
+        ctxt = Context(**data)
+        return template.generate(ctxt)