Sorry, I haven't used Tornado's templates enough to compare them with e.g. Django's. Essentially all I use Tornado for is to publish a WebSocket endpoint, and

Sorry, I haven't used Tornado's templates enough to compare them with e.g. Django's. Essentially all I use Tornado for is to publish a WebSocket endpoint, and for that specific purpose it's great. For building conventional web apps I'm very happy with Django and its templates.