Chapter 10. Extending the Template Engine
Although most of your interactions with Django's template language will be in the role of template author, you may want to customize and extend the template engineeither to make it do something it doesn't already do, or to make your job easier in some other way.
This chapter delves deep into the guts of Django's template system. It covers what you need to know if you plan to extend the system or if you're just curious about how it works.
If you're looking to use the Django template system as part of another application (i.e., without the rest of the framework), make sure to read the "Configuring the Template System in Standalone Mode" section later in the chapter.
Template Language Review
First, let's quickly ...
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