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[django] create a formatted string with the Django template system
August 4, 2014
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Problem
In an application I wanted to send formatted HTML emails. For producing the body of the email, I wanted to use the Django template system. The task is very similar to creating a view. The difference is that I don’t want to send back the HTML to the client in the browser but I want to store it in a string.
Solution
The solution is very simple:
from django.template.loader import render_to_string
def email():
context = {'some_key': 'some_value'}
html = render_to_string('APP_NAME/email.html', context)
send_email(html)
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