Turning on Jinja autoescaping when using Template() directly#

Jinja autoescaping is turned off by default. Coming from Django this frequently catches me out.

You can turn on autoescaping for your Jinja environment using:

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from jinja2 import Environment, FileSystemLoader
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env = Environment(
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    loader=FileSystemLoader("/path/to/templates"),
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    autoescape=True
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)

But what about if you are using Template directly? TIL that the Template class takes all of the same options as Environment does, so you can do this:

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from jinja2 import Template
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template = Template("""
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<p>Hello {{ name }}</p>
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""", autoescape=True)
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print(template.render({"name": "Simon & Cleo"}))
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# Output: <p>Hello Simon &amp; Cleo</p>

Here’s the Template class constructor.