How to load jinja template directly from filesystem

Question

The jinja API document at pocoo.org states:

The simplest way to configure Jinja2 to load templates for your application looks roughly like this:

Answer 1

A simpler way is to directly call the jinj2.Template constructor and use open to load the file:

from jinja2 import Template
with open('template.html.jinja2') as file_:
    template = Template(file_.read())
template.render(name='John')