Creating a simple report in plain text

The most simple report is to generate some text and store it in a file.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will generate a brief report in text format. The data to be stored will be in a dictionary.

How to do it...

1. Import datetime:

>>> from datetime import datetime

2. Create the template with the report in text format:

>>> TEMPLATE = '''
Movies report
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Date: {date}
Movies seen in the last 30 days: {num_movies}
Total minutes: {total_minutes}
'''

3. Create a dictionary with the values...