Django Advent, Day 11: Smart If Template Tag (Chris Beaven)

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If you haven't tried it yet, I highly recommend the Jinja2 template engine. It's almost a drop in replacement for Django templates, but has a proper if, macros and a few other extras. I have a Jinja version of render_to_response() and I will post it if someone is interested.

please do!

If you are choosing the django stack, I would advise staying within the built-in template system.

Jinja2 is a great project and I wish it was easy to integrate with django.

I tried it through coffin http://github.com/dcramer/coffin and got hit by a few views from the contrib.auth models that had to be rewritten.

If you want to plug django-apps, you will have to patch and maintain them to work with Jinja2.

Coffin uses a nice trick to reload the view functions code with a Jinja2 version of render_to_response and RequestContext:

http://github.com/dcramer/coffin/blob/master/coffin/contrib/...

Note that django 1.2 will include 'Smart' if tags and Template caching if that is what you are looking for in Jinja2:

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.2-alpha-1/#s...

In the 1.2 release notes it states that due to changes made to the template caching layer it is now much easier to work with non-django template languages.

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.2/#template-...

I hope so, but I realized I chose django because it comes with batteries included.

If you're after Jinja2, wouldn't you find it more interesting to work with a minimalistic stack like Werkzeug, SqlAlchemy, couchdbkit... ?

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