Jinja A small but fast und easy to use stand-alone template engine written in pure python. 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`_. .. _documentation: http://wsgiarea.pocoo.org/jinja/docs/ .. _jinja webpage: http://wsgiarea.pocoo.org/jinja/ Armin Ronacher c7ba33ae7e575ec4e37640d5fb9b76fc2df7a623 0.8