Jinja2 Documentation¶

This is the documentation for the Jinja2 general purpose templating language. Jinja2 is a library for Python 2.4 and onwards that is designed to be flexible, fast and secure.

• Introduction
  • Prerequisites
  • Installation
  • Basic API Usage

• API
  • Basics
  • Unicode
  • High Level API
  • Notes on Identifiers
  • Undefined Types
  • The Context
  • Loaders
  • Bytecode Cache
  • Utilities
  • Exceptions
  • Custom Filters
  • Custom Tests
  • The Global Namespace
  • Low Level API

• Sandbox

• Template Designer Documentation
  • Synopsis
  • Variables
  • Filters
  • Tests
  • Comments
  • Whitespace Control
  • Escaping
  • Line Statements
  • Template Inheritance
  • HTML Escaping
  • List of Control Structures
  • Import Context Behavior
  • Expressions
  • List of Builtin Filters
  • List of Builtin Tests
  • List of Global Functions
  • Extensions

• Extensions
  • Adding Extensions
  • i18n Extension
  • Expression Statement
  • Loop Controls
  • Writing Extensions

• Integration
  • Babel Integration
  • Pylons
  • TextMate
  • Vim

• Switching from other Template Engines
  • Jinja1
  • Django
  • Mako

• Tips and Tricks
  • Null-Master Fallback
  • Alternating Rows
  • Highlighting Active Menu Items
  • Accessing the parent Loop

• Frequently Asked Questions
  • Why is it called Jinja?
  • How fast is it?
  • How Compatible is Jinja2 with Django?
  • Isn’t it a terrible idea to put Logic into Templates?
  • Why is Autoescaping not the Default?
  • Why is the Context immutable?
  • I don’t have the _speedups Module. Is Jinja slower now?
  • My tracebacks look weird. What’s happening?
  • Why is there no Python 2.3 support?

• Jinja2 Changelog
  • Version 2.2
  • Version 2.1.1
  • Version 2.1
  • Version 2.0
  • Version 2.0rc1

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