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Asked: 2026-05-24T03:31:38+00:00

I have a string that looks like string ”’ <html> <head> {% block head

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I have a string that looks like

string '''
    <html>
        <head>
            {% block head %}{% endblock %}
            ... other stuff ...
        </head>
        <body>
            {% block body %}{% endblock %}
           ... other stuff ...
        </body>
    </html>
'''

I would like the following django template to inherit from the above string:

{% block head %}
    ... other stuff ...
{% endblock %}

{% block body %}
    <h1>Other stuff</h1>
{% endblock %}

Since the string is not in a file a can’t just specify it’s filename to the template rendering engine. Any ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    It turns out there’s an even simpler way to achieve this:

    from google.appengine.ext.webapp import template

parent = template.Template("<html><body>{% block content %}{% endblock %}</body></html>")
path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'index.html')
template.render(path, template.Context({"baseTemplate": parent}))

    Where the index.html file looks like this:

    {% extends baseTemplate %}
{% block content %}
    <h1>Hello World!</h1>
{% endblock %}

    In this case, the template object (as opposed to just a string) is passed into the context of the child template and used as the variable in the ‘extends’ tag.

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