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Even with a pure MVC architecture Jinja2's argument-passing enhancements would be an improvement - as Armin says, making the couplings explicit would be a Pythonic thing to do.

The goal of this project is to create a new way of writing Django template tags which is fully compatible with the current Django templating infrastructure. This new way should be easy, clean and require as little boilerplate code as possible while still staying as powerful as possible.

As for logic in [Django] templates, well, I do tend to agree with Jacob — I'd rather add a bit of salt now and again than have to worry about too much already being baked in :)

Meant mostly as a demo of how to do complex block tags, here's a switch/case implementation.

Django's template language is designed to strike a balance between power and ease. It's designed to feel comfortable to those used to working with HTML. If you have any exposure to other text-based template languages, such as Smarty or CheetahTemplate, you should feel right at home with Django's templates. Templates A template is simply a text file. It can generate any text-based format (HTML, XML, CSV, etc.). A template contains variables, which get replaced with values when the template is evaluated, and tags, which control the logic of the template.