Python Adventures

Problem
When using Flask (or Django), I don’t care much about the generated HTMLs. They may be ugly, who cares. However, there is one thing that bothers me. When I write this for instance in a template:

<div>
    {% if True %}
        yay
    {% endif %}
</div>

the generated output looks like this:

<div>

        yay

</div>

See? Jinja2 litters the output with empty lines. How to get rid of them?

Solution
The official documentation talks about this here. It says you need to enable both trim_blocks and lstrip_blocks. In Flask, you can do that like this:

...
app = Flask(__name__)
app.jinja_env.trim_blocks = True
app.jinja_env.lstrip_blocks = True
...

Done.