Easy Way to Escape Django Template Variables

Question

For a new project we\'re writing documentation about the Django template system. We use Django for the documentation project itself too, so Django picks up all our exam

Answer 1

I solved this by adding an "include_raw" template tag that behaves like the built-in "include" tag, but just doesn't parse or process the file passed to it. I'm running Django 1.2 under App Engine.

Create a tags module (tags.py):

from django.template import loader
from google.appengine.ext.webapp import template

register = template.create_template_register()

@register.simple_tag
def include_raw(path):
  return loader.find_template(path)[0]

Register it:

from google.appengine.ext.webapp import template

template.register_template_library("tags")

Use it:

{% include_raw "this-will-be-included-verbatim.html" %}