4 How Cheetah Works
As mentioned before, you can do two things with templates: compile them and
fill them. (Actually you can query them too, to see their attributes and
method values.) Using templates in a Python program was shown in section
3.7 (Quickstart tutorial). Here we'll focus on
compiling and filling templates from the shell command line, and how to make
.py template modules. The compiling information here is also important for
template-servlets, which will be otherwise covered in chapter 14
(Webware).
