""" Straight Include template tag by @HenrikJoreteg Django templates don't give us any way to escape template tags. So if you ever need to include client side templates for ICanHaz.js (or anything else that may confuse django's templating engine) You can is this little snippet. Just use it as you would a normal {% include %} tag. It just won't process the included text. It assumes your included templates are in you django templates directory. Usage: {% load straight_include %} {% straight_include "my_icanhaz_templates.html" %} """ import os from django import template from django.conf import settings register = template.Library() class StraightIncludeNode(template.Node): def __init__(self, template_path): for template_dir in settings.TEMPLATE_DIRS: self.filepath = '%s/%s' % (template_dir, template_path) if os.path.exists(self.filepath): break else: raise IOError("cannot find %s in %s" % (template_path, str(TEMPLATE_DIRS))) def render(self, context): fp = open(self.filepath, 'r') output = fp.read() fp.close() return output def do_straight_include(parser, token): """ Loads a template and includes it without processing it Example:: {% straight_include "foo/some_include" %} """ bits = token.split_contents() if len(bits) != 2: raise template.TemplateSyntaxError("%r tag takes one argument: the location of the file within the template folder" % bits[0]) path = bits[1][1:-1] return StraightIncludeNode(path) register.tag("straight_include", do_straight_include)