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Re: Using Jinja2 with Django (via Coffin)

Jeff Bauer — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:50:41 -0000

Things not supported by Coffin: "Django-type safe strings passed through the context are not converted and therefore not recognized by Jinja2. For example, a notable place were this would occur is the HTML generation of Django Forms."

Lack of support for Django Forms would be a show-stopper for me. Any work-arounds?

Re: Using Jinja2 with Django (via Coffin)

Playground Equipment — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:30:56 -0000

It would be very nice to consolidate this work into one project and perhaps submit the necessary patches to Django to make the integration even easier.

Re: Using Jinja2 with Django (via Coffin)

Alberto — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:38:03 -0000

I having problems with i18n. I'm in the same situation of dmlance. I get this error when I try to render a template with "trans" tags:

'gettext' is undefined

This is the code of my template:

I have added the i18n extension in settings.py but it doesn't work. Any solution?

Re: Using Jinja2 with Django (via Coffin)

koobz — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:46:04 -0000

Looking at the filter/extension examples above, how does done access the django context variable that's available to you when you write custom django template tags?

The reason I ask is because I'm trying to migrate this snippet here: http://www.djangosnippets.o... to a jinja template.

Re: Using Jinja2 with Django (via Coffin)

dmlance — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:21:56 -0000

Coffin have problems with i18n (trans tags and related stuff), looks like they broke jinja2 gettext init.
Tested with latest coffin, django, jinja2 and py2.6
djajinja works without any problems.

Re: Using Jinja2 with Django (via Coffin)

Lars — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:51:52 -0000

I am using Jinja2 + Django on every project and I wanted to use it for external apps too.

Using this patch http://code.djangoproject.c... and a custom template loader + a small wrapper around Jinja templates that looks in a directory for Jinja2 templates and falls back to Django templates if none is available. There are so many projects/methods out there doing exactly the same thing (at least four and I didn't even know about djanjinja).

It would be very nice to consolidate this work into one project and perhaps submit the necessary patches to Django to make the integration even easier.

On a related note: Jinja 2.2 has been released a few days ago.

Re: Using Jinja2 with Django (via Coffin)

Zack — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:01:09 -0000

I wrote http://bitbucket.org/zachar... to scratch exactly the same itch. It looks like the two projects are relatively similar in their goals.

Re: Using Jinja2 with Django (via Coffin)

David Cramer — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:40:53 -0000

FUD would imply something illegitimate. I had loads of issues getting it compiled through Fink.

Re: Using Jinja2 with Django (via Coffin)

Marco — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:41:36 -0000

what does it means "the problem of getting bzr working on my Mac" ???
It's not more complicated than get git or hg or svn ... use macports and you'll get bzr working like a charm. Moreover there is a .pkg installer (that I personally don't like but it works too without a problem)
Just to stop the FUD

Re: Using Jinja2 with Django (via Coffin)

Guest — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:27:51 -0000

Hi,
I use this connector to make Jinja2 work with Django. Super easy and working everywhere even on AppEngine:
http://bitbucket.org/trevor...

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