minified version of templar using String template

+this a template file 
+
+var = [[{variable}]]
+
+otra_variable= [[{var}]]
\ No newline at end of file

+variable=hello world

+#!/usr/bin/python
+import string, re, sys
+import getopt,os.path
+
+
+debug = False
+ifile = ''
+ofile = ifile
+printit = False
+vars=os.environ
+
+
+class MyTemplate(string.Template):
+    #delimiter = '{{'
+    pattern = r'''
+    \[\[\{(?:
+    (?P<escaped>\[\[\{)|
+    (?P<named>[_a-z][_a-z0-9]*)\}\]\]|
+    (?P<braced>[_a-z][_a-z0-9]*)\}\]\]|
+    (?P<invalid>)
+    )
+    '''
+
+
+def usage():
+	print """	usage: %s [OPTIONS]
+
+	OPTIONS:
+	-i, --ifile=ABSOLUTE_INPUT_FILE_PATH			
+			input template file 
+			by default it will replace in file
+
+	-v, --vars=JSON_VARS_FILE	   			
+			json of variables file to replace in, 
+			by default it loads the environment variables 
+	
+	-o, --ofile=ABS_OUTPUT_FILE_PATH 	
+			provide an output file, 
+			override the input file default behaviour
+	-p, --print
+			print to stdout instead of replacing the file,
+			it will do replace in file.
+			it will override the output file and input file default behaviour 
+
+		"""%sys.argv[0]
+	sys.exit(2)
+
+
+def engine(ifile,ofile,vars):
+	template_content = open(ifile, "r").read() 
+	template= MyTemplate(template_content)
+	
+	#print 'MATCHES:', t.pattern.findall(t.template)
+	outputText = template.safe_substitute(vars)
+	print 'MATCHES:', template.pattern.findall(template.template)
+	
+
+	if printit:
+		print "AFTER TEMPLATE:"
+		#print outputText
+		print outputText.encode('ascii', 'ignore')
+	else:
+		f = open(ofile,'w')
+		f.write(outputText.encode('ascii', 'ignore'))
+		f.close()
+
+
+
+
+def main(argv):
+	try:
+		options, remainder = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'o:f:i:v:dph', ['ofile=','o=', 
+															 'ifile=','i=',
+															 'vars=','v=',
+	                                                         'print','p', 
+	                                                         'help','h'	                                                        
+	                                                         ])
+	except getopt.GetoptError:
+		usage()
+		sys.exit(2)
+
+	global debug, vars, ifile, ofile,printit
+
+	for opt, arg in options:
+		if opt in ('-v','--vars','--v'):
+			if os.path.isfile(arg):
+				with open(arg) as data_file: 
+					print "using file"   
+					vars = json.load(data_file)
+			else:
+				print "using environment"
+				vars=os.environ
+
+		elif opt in ('-f','--ifile','--i','-i'):
+			if os.path.isfile(arg):
+				ifile=arg
+				ofile=ifile
+			else:
+				print "file provided [%s] does not exist" %arg
+				usage()
+
+		elif opt in  ("-o" ,"--ofile",'--o') :
+			ofile = arg	
+		elif opt in ('-p','--print'):
+			printit=True
+		elif opt in ('-h','--help'):
+			usage()
+		else:
+			usage()
+
+	if debug:
+		print 'OPTIONS   :', options
+		print 'VARS    :', pprint(vars)
+		print 'DEBUG   :', debug
+		print 'OUTPUT  :', ofile
+		print 'INPUT   :', ifile
+		print 'PRINTIT :', printit
+		print 'REMAINING :', remainder
+
+
+	
+	engine(ifile, ofile, vars )
+
+
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+	if len(sys.argv) > 1:
+		main(sys.argv[1:])	
+	else:
+		usage()
+sys.exit()
+
+
+
+
+