Farshid/Ashouri

templating

3 posts tagged “templating”.

  1. 2025

  2. Conditionally creating directories in cookiecutter

    I wanted my datasette-plugin cookiecutter template to create empty and directories if the user replied to the and prompts.

    cookiecutter python templating automation project-generation
    1 min read
  3. 2024

  4. Custom Jinja template tags with attributes

    I decided to implement a custom Jinja template block tag for my datasette-render-markdown plugin. I wanted the tag to work like this: A basic Jinja extension After some fiddling around with GitHub…

    jinja python templating web-development markdown
    2 min read
  5. 2023

  6. Formatting thousands in Jinja

    Here's how to format a number in Jinja with commas for thousands, without needing any custom filters or template functions: {{ "{:,}".format(row count) }} Output looks like this: 179,119 Bonus: here's…

    jinja templating python formatting tips
    1 min read