A simple and powerful template engine
Project description
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|escapexml }}</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': 'hello world' }) print t.render(c)