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Jinja 0.8

A small but fast und easy to use stand-alone template engine written in pure python.

Latest Version: 1.2

Jinja is a small but very fast und easy to use stand-alone template engine written in pure python.

Since version 0.6 it uses a new parser that increases parsing performance a lot by caching the nodelists on the harddisk if wanted.

It includes multiple template inheritance and other features like simple value escaping...

Template Syntax

This is a small example template in which you can see, how jinja's syntax looks like:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
    <title>My Webpage</title>
</head
<body>
    <ul id="navigation">
    {% for item in navigation %}
        <li><a href="{{ item.href }}">{{ item.caption|e }}</a></li>
    {% endfor %}
    </ul>

    <h1>My Webpage</h1>
    {{ variable }}
</body>
</html>

Usage

Here a small example:

from jinja import Template, Context, FileSystemLoader

t = Template('mytemplate', FileSystemLoader('/path/to/the/templates'))
c = Context({
    'navigation' [
        {'href': '#', 'caption': 'Index'},
        {'href': '#', 'caption': 'Spam'}
    ],
    'variable': '<strong>hello world</strong>'
})
print t.render(c)

Unicode Support

Jinja comes with built-in Unicode support. As a matter of fact, the return value of Template.render() will be a Python unicode object.

You can still output str objects as well when you encode the result:

s = t.render(c).encode('utf-8')

For more examples check out the documentation on the jinja webpage.

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