jinja
A fast, expressive, and extensible templating engine for Python that compiles templates to optimized code.
What is jinja?
Jinja is a fast, expressive, and extensible templating engine for Python that allows embedding Python-like syntax within templates. It compiles templates to optimized Python code, supports features like inheritance, autoescaping, and async operations, and is used to generate HTML, XML, and other text formats dynamically.
Python developers building web applications, generating dynamic content, or automating text-based output who need a robust and performant templating solution.
Developers choose Jinja for its high performance due to JIT compilation, rich feature set including template inheritance and sandboxing, and its balance of power and safety, making it both flexible for designers and secure for production use.
Overview
A very fast and expressive template engine.
Use Cases
Best For
- Generating dynamic HTML pages in Python web frameworks like Flask or Django
- Creating reusable email templates with inheritance and variable substitution
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