django generic templates
I don't see you getting away from writing templates, especially if you would want to format it, even slightly.
However you can re-use basic templates, for e.g, create a generic object_list.html and object_detail.html
that will basically contain the information to loop over the object list and present it, and show the object detail.  You could use these "Generic" templates across the entire app if need be.
So, Generic views are pretty cool, but what I'm interested in is something that's a generic template.
so for example, I can give it an object and it'll just tostring it for me.
or if I give it a list, it'll just iterate over the objects and tostring them as a ul (or tr, or whatever else it deems necessary).
for most uses you wouldn't need this. I just threw something together quickly for a friend (a bar stock app, if you must know), and I don't feel like writing templates.