How to pass a list from Python, by Jinja2 to JavaScript

Question

Let\'s say I have a Python variable:

list_of_items = [\'1\',\'2\',\'3\',\'4\',\'5\']

and I pass it to Jinja by rendering HTML, and I also h

Answer 1

I had a similar problem using Flask, but I did not have to resort to JSON. I just passed a list letters = ['a','b','c'] with render_template('show_entries.html', letters=letters), and set

var letters = {{ letters|safe }}

in my javascript code. Jinja2 replaced {{ letters }} with ['a','b','c'], which javascript interpreted as an array of strings.