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Static site generator is a software that takes some text + templates as input and produces html files on the output. A picture:

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   │ text │ + │ templates │ = │ .html files │
   └──────┘   └───────────┘   └─────────────┘

Generated site can be blog, game list, interactive demo or anything else.

Static site generators written in Python

PubTal - Templating#SimpleTAL-based static web site generator, BSD-3
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/rest2web/ - Generates Websites from ReST contents
Hyde - Django based static web site generator. Code
Blogofile - Mako-based static web site generator. Supports Git, Disqus, RSS feeds, plugins, and S3.
Pelican - Uses Markdown or ReST for content and Jinja 2 for themes. Supports DVCS, Disqus.
Sphinx - Turns ReST into HTML, LaTeX, man pages, or plaintext. Created to by Python's official documentation system and has many features for making site trees, inter-document linking, and other documentation necessities (Jinja2 as default template engine).
Tinkerer - blogging engine/static website generator powered by Sphinx.
Poole - Static website generator based on Markdown. html2text - useful tool for conversion into Markdown.
Mynt - Static website generator based on Markdown (Jinja2 as a template).

These are outdated, but worth mentioning:

http://www.nthwave.net/elements/ - powerful tool for experienced web developers of year 2001, requires at least Python 2.2

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 * [[http://www.nthwave.net/elements/]] - powerful tool for experienced web developers of year 2001, requires at least Python 2.2

== Dead links for software archaeologists ==

 * [[http://www.ivy.fr/tahchee/|tahchee]] - [[Cheetah]]-based static web site generator
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