That's just not what we're trying to do with Django's template language. However, if you'd like a template language that's closer to pure Python, I'd suggest g

That's just not what we're trying to do with Django's template language. However, if you'd like a template language that's closer to pure Python, I'd suggest giving Cheetah (http://cheetahtemplate.org/ http://cheetahtemplate.org/) a try. I've used it in the past; quite nice.