Question

I have been using django for a while and I am now converting to jinja2 because GAE told me too. One of the short cuts I use for django is to pass “self” to django when rendering my template so that in my template I call {{ self.stuff }}. In jinja it seems that “self” represents something. Does this require me to change all my templates to use perhaps “this”?

Answer 1

self is actually used by Jinja2 to allow you to reference blocks:

<!-- In your layout.html file -->
<title>{%- block title %}{% endblock %}</title>
<!-- Some distance further down ... -->
<h1>{{self.title()}}</h1>

<!-- In a file that extends layout.html -->
{% block title %}The Title of the Page{% endblock %}

<!-- The above will render -->
<title>The Title of the Page</title>
<!-- Some other stuff ... -->
<h1>The Title of the Page</h1>

Simply use another name and everything will work (i.e., rather than self use this or obj as suggested by @Skirmantas).