API

The central template object. This class represents a compiled template and is used to evaluate it.

Normally the template object is generated from an Environment but it also has a constructor that makes it possible to create a template instance directly using the constructor. It takes the same arguments as the environment constructor but it’s not possible to specify a loader.

Every template object has a few methods and members that are guaranteed to exist. However it’s important that a template object should be considered immutable. Modifications on the object are not supported.

Template objects created from the constructor rather than an environment do have an environment attribute that points to a temporary environment that is probably shared with other templates created with the constructor and compatible settings.

>>> template = Template('Hello {{ name }}!')
>>> template.render(name='John Doe') == u'Hello John Doe!'
True
>>> stream = template.stream(name='John Doe')
>>> next(stream) == u'Hello John Doe!'
True
>>> next(stream)
Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
StopIteration

globals

该模板的全局变量字典。修改这个字典是不安全的，因为它可能与其它模板或 加载这个模板的环境共享。

name

模板的加载名。如果模板从字符串加载，这个值为 None 。

filename

模板在文件系统上的文件名，如果没有从文件系统加载，这个值为 None 。

render([context])

This method accepts the same arguments as the dict constructor: A dict, a dict subclass or some keyword arguments. If no arguments are given the context will be empty. These two calls do the same:

template.render(knights='that say nih')
template.render({'knights': 'that say nih'})

This will return the rendered template as unicode string.

generate([context])

For very large templates it can be useful to not render the whole template at once but evaluate each statement after another and yield piece for piece. This method basically does exactly that and returns a generator that yields one item after another as unicode strings.

It accepts the same arguments as render().

stream([context])

Works exactly like generate() but returns a TemplateStream.

make_module(vars=None, shared=False, locals=None)

This method works like the module attribute when called without arguments but it will evaluate the template on every call rather than caching it. It’s also possible to provide a dict which is then used as context. The arguments are the same as for the new_context() method.

module

The template as module. This is used for imports in the template runtime but is also useful if one wants to access exported template variables from the Python layer:

>>> t = Template('{% macro foo() %}42{% endmacro %}23')
>>> str(t.module)
'23'
>>> t.module.foo() == u'42'
True

A template stream works pretty much like an ordinary python generator but it can buffer multiple items to reduce the number of total iterations. Per default the output is unbuffered which means that for every unbuffered instruction in the template one unicode string is yielded.

If buffering is enabled with a buffer size of 5, five items are combined into a new unicode string. This is mainly useful if you are streaming big templates to a client via WSGI which flushes after each iteration.

disable_buffering()

Disable the output buffering.

dump(fp, encoding=None, errors='strict')

Dump the complete stream into a file or file-like object. Per default unicode strings are written, if you want to encode before writing specify an encoding.

Example usage:

Template('Hello {{ name }}!').stream(name='foo').dump('hello.html')

enable_buffering(size=5)

Enable buffering. Buffer size items before yielding them.