Are there Python tools to help webmasters manage static websites? I'm talking about regenerating an entire static website - all the HTML files in their appropriate directories and sub-directories. Each page has some fixed parts (navigation menu, header, footer) and some changing parts (body content, though in specific cases the normally fixed parts might change as well). The tool should help to keep site editing DRY every piece of data, including the recurring parts, should exist only once.
The above should be doable with any decent templating tool, such as those forming part of most CMSes and full-stack web-frameworks. Normally I might have just resorted to a CMS/web-framework, running locally on the webmaster's station, with the only addition being a mechanism for generating all pages composing the site and saving them as files. But such a solution might not be enough, as the system I'm looking for must be able to control the physical traits of the website as a collection of files - e.g., creation and distribution of files among several physical directories and subdirectories. Any advice would be appreciated, -Chris -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
