Setting Up Templates in Pyramid

To get started with templating in Pyramid, you need to choose a templating engine. In this article, we will focus on Jinja2, one of the most popular and widely used templating engines.

Templates are a crucial part of any web application, enabling developers to create dynamic HTML content by embedding Python code within HTML. Pyramid supports several templating engines, including Jinja2, Chameleon, and Mako. Each of these engines has its own syntax and features, but they all serve the same basic purpose: to generate HTML content dynamically.

Concepts Related to Python Pyramid Templates

• Template Engines: Jinja2, Chameleon, and Mako are some of the templating engines that Python Pyramid supports. With these template engines, developers can write HTML pages dynamically by inserting Python code into HTML templates.
• Inheritance of Templates: It is possible to create a base template with common elements like headers, footers, or navigation bars in it and then extend this base template in child templates to add specific content; this feature is called template inheritance. It helps in reusing code and having consistent layouts across multiple pages.
• Template Context: The term “template context” refers to information passed from views (in Python) to templates. In Python Pyramid, you can pass data to templates either via the render() function or through context argument while rendering a template.