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Anyone know why they didn't go with Jinja2 for templates? When code is this clean I'm sympathetic towards the "batteries-included" approach, so I'm not criticiz
by jokull 15y ago
Anyone know why they didn't go with Jinja2 for templates? When code is this clean I'm sympathetic towards the "batteries-included" approach, so I'm not criticizing the choice, just wondering if there was a back story, if it got evaluated at all. Same for locale.py vs. PyBabel. The template engine seems far better than Django's at least : )
- rgarcia 15y agoMy guess is that they wanted to go the "self-contained" route as opposed to the "amalgamation of different libraries" approach (a la Pylons/Pyramid). This makes it a lot easier to learn for true beginners since it eliminates the overhead of navigating the documentation of a multitude of different libraries . Tornado is so flexible, though, that it would be pretty straightforward for you to use whatever templating library floats your boat.