Question

I’ve been working on a means for users to store their own templates and I know that I’m going to have to create Templates on the fly. For example:

>>> from django.template import Template
>>> Template("Testing {{test}}")
<django.template.base.Template object at 0x10c58f990>

However, when I asked about loading template strings, I was advised to use get_template_from_string:

>>> from django.template import loader
>>> loader.get_template_from_string("Testing {{test}}")
<django.template.base.Template object at 0x10c8b5450>

What is the difference between the two methods? Is one way more pythonic, or preferred to the other?

Answer 1

The Django documentation for the templating code describes using the first method you’ve described: using Template().

It does not mention get_template_from_string, nor does anywhere else in the documentation.

I would therefore lean heavily on usage of the first method, because the other is presumably more likely to change in future, as it is an undocumented function.