Insert static files literally into Jinja templates without parsing them

Question

I\'m trying to insert file into a page using Jinja 2.6 using the include tag. This worked fine until I started using characters in the file that are reminiscent

Answer 1

As an update to @Alex's answer, you can use Jinja's @contextfunction decorator to remove some of the reliance on global variables. The updated code would look like:

import jinja2                                                                                                                                                                                                  

@jinja.contextfunction                                                                                                                                                                                         
def include_file(ctx, name):                                                                                                                                                                                   
    env = ctx.environment                                                                                                                                                                                      
    return jinja2.Markup(env.loader.get_source(env, name)[0])                                                                                                                                                  


def main():                                                                                                                                                                                                    
    loader = jinja2.PackageLoader(__name__, 'templates')                                                                                                                                                       
    env = jinja2.Environment(loader=loader)                                                                                                                                                                    
    env.globals['include_file'] = include_file                                                                                                                                                                 

    env.get_template('page.html').render()                                                                                                                                                                     


if __name__ == '__main__':                                                                                                                                                                                     
    print main()

And just as before, call it from your template like:

{{ include_file('file.txt') }}