DESCRIPTION.rst

Integrate Jinja2 into Tornado Framework

This package makes you have the ability that using Jiaja2 Template Engine with Tornado Web Framework. It will replace the default Tornado Templates.

How to use:

Import Jinja2Loader to your project

from tornado_jinja2 import Jinja2Loader

Pass the instance of Jinja2Loader to tornado.web.Application as the value of "template_loader" parameter. You can use the particular Loader from jinja2 and configuring jinaja2 environment by your self.

import tornado.web
import jinja2

# Create a instance of Jinja2Loader
jinja2_env = jinja2.Environment(loader=jinja2.FileSystemLoader('template/path/'), autoescape=False)
jinja2_loader = Jinja2Loader(jinja2_env)

# Give it to Tornado to replace the default Loader.
settings = dict(template_loader=jinja2_loader)
application = tornado.web.Application(handler=[],
                                      **settings)