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Babel
A collection of tools for internationalizing Python applications. Pyramid does not depend on Babel to operate, but if Babel is installed, additional locale functionality becomes available to your application.
Chameleon
Chameleon is an open-source template engine written in Python.
Genshi
An XML templating language by Christopher Lenz.
Mako
Mako is a template language which refines the familiar ideas of componentized layout and inheritance using Python with Python scoping and calling semantics.
Response
An object returned by a view callable that represents response data returned to the requesting user agent. It must implement the pyramid.interfaces.IResponse interface. A response object is typically an instance of the pyramid.response.Response class or a subclass such as pyramid.httpexceptions.HTTPFound. See Request and Response Objects for information about response objects.
ZPT
ZPT is the Zope Page Template templating language.