I’m not overly sure how one is supposed to directly render text based on variables that would be expanded, but this entry is very wrong.

When I set up the pycategories plugin, I used a configuration that was provided by example in the documentation within the plugin. This was suggested as a possibility:

py["category_start"] = ""
py["category_begin"] = ""
py["category_item"] = r'%(indent)s%(category)s (%(count)d)
'
py["category_end"] = ""
py["category_finish"] = ""

There’s a small problem with the item listing: it doesn’t work with nested categories. However the plugin also creates the variable %(fullcategory), which fixes the problem, as so:

py["category_start"] = ""
py["category_begin"] = ""
py["category_item"] = r'%(indent)s%(category)s (%(count)d)
'
py["category_end"] = ""
py["category_finish"] = ""