Python templates for web designers

Question

What are some good templating engines for web designers? I definitely have my preferences as to what I'd prefer to work with as a programmer. But web designers seem to have a different way of thinking about things and thus may prefer a different system.

So:

• Web designers: what templating engine do you prefer to work with?
• programmers: what templating engines have you worked with that made working with web designers easy?

Answer 1

I had good votes when answering this same question's duplicate.

My answer was:

Jinja2.

Nice syntax, good customization possibilities.

Integrates well. Can be sandboxed, so you don't have to trust completely your template authors. (Mako can't).

It is also pretty fast, with the bonus of compiling your template to bytecode and cache it, as in the demonstration below:

>>> import jinja2
>>> print jinja2.Environment().compile('{% for row in data %}{{ row.name | upper }}{% endfor %}', raw=True) 
from __future__ import division
from jinja2.runtime import LoopContext, Context, TemplateReference, Macro, Markup, TemplateRuntimeError, missing, concat, escape, markup_join, unicode_join
name = None

def root(context, environment=environment):
    l_data = context.resolve('data')
    t_1 = environment.filters['upper']
    if 0: yield None
    for l_row in l_data:
        if 0: yield None
        yield unicode(t_1(environment.getattr(l_row, 'name')))

blocks = {}
debug_info = '1=9'

This code has been generated on the fly by Jinja2. Of course the compiler optmizes it further (e.g. removing if 0: yield None)