Jinja (Template engine)

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Jinja is a template engine that uses the Python programming language.

It is designed to strike a balance between content and application logic, which means that Jinja doesn't provide if conditions with more than one term...

Jinja doesn't compile templates like Cheetah does, but provides a caching system which saves the internal nodelist to a file.

It also ships an easy to user filter system like Smarty does, similar to the Pipeline system of Unix.

[edit] Example

Here is a small example of the Jinja template:

from jinja import Template, Context, StringLoader

t = '''
<html>
<head><title>{{ variable|search "a", "e" }}</title></head>
<body>
{% for item in list %}
   {{ item }}{% if not loop.last %},{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
</body>
</html>
'''

t = Template(t, StringLoader())
c = Context({
    'variable': 'Value',
    'list': [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
})
print t.render(c)