The README.txt should be in the most important parts readable without keyword substitutions. The release number ist now directly included. Distinguish between the release date "release_date" and the build date of the documentation "today".

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

__comment1 = u"Comment 1"
key1 = u"the value"
key2 = 2
key3 = 5.7
key4 = True
key5 = False
key6 = 0o377
__comment2 = u"Comment no 2"
key7 = u"Umlaute: ÄÖÜäöüß"