Python provides regular-expression-based baked-in string-templating functionality. It’s highly configurable and allows you to easily do string-replacements into templates of the following manner:
Token 1: $Token1 Token 2: $Token2 Token 3: ${Token3}
You can tell it to use an alternate template pattern (using an alternate symbol or symbols) as well as being able to tell it to work differently at the regular-expression level.
It’s not spelled-out how to extract the tokens from a template, however. You would just use a simple regular-expression-based search:
import string import re text = """ Token 1: $Token1 Token 2: $Token2 Token 3: $Token3 """ t = string.Template(text) result = re.findall(t.pattern, t.template) tokens = [r[1] for r in result] print(tokens) #['Token1', 'Token2', 'Token3']