Jinja (template engine)

Jinja is a template engine for the Python programming language. It is similar to the Django template engine but provides Python-like expressions while ensuring that the templates are evaluated in a sandbox. It's a text-based template language and thus can be used to generate any markup as well as sourcecode. It's licensed under a BSD License.

The Jinja template engine allows customization of tags[1], filters, tests, and globals[2]. Also, unlike the Django template engine, Jinja allows the template designer to call functions with arguments on objects.

Jinja, like Smarty, also ships with an easy-to-use filter system similar to the Unix pipeline.

Example

Here is a small example of a template:

from jinja import from_string
 
tmpl = from_string(u'''\
<html>
<head><title>{{ variable|escape }}</title></head>
<body>
{% for item in item_list %}
   {{ item }}{% if not loop.last %},{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
</body>
</html>''')
 
print tmpl.render(
    variable='Value with <unsafe> data',
    item_list=[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
)

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