That's the opposite of what inheritance does. Partials let a template include another one. Inheritance allow a template to use another template and inject only

That's the opposite of what inheritance does. Partials let a template include another one. Inheritance allow a template to use another template and inject only specific content into it. http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/templates/#template-inheritance http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/templates/#template-inheritance You absolutely need this if you're using the templating system for all pages on your site, and have various subpages that inherit from the base and override only certain portions of it.