How to perform Template() on askbot setting?

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Okay, I figured it out... I wasn't importing Template :)

Once I import Template, I add this to loaders.py:

def render_text(text, data, request):
        context = RequestContext(request, data)
        template = Template(text)
        return template.render(context)

And now I can send the text there first, then to render_into_skin.

The only problem I have with this is {% trans %} tags don't work. Otherwise, you can at least include settings variables now.

In askbot, because of the skins module, you need to do this:

from askbot.skins.loaders import get_template
from django.template import Context
template = get_template('some_template.txt')
output = template.render(Context({'some_data': 'some_value'}))

Here are docs for Jinja2. Jinja2 templating engine is used throughout askbot for the speed.

Okay, this isn't an answer, this is a continuation of the above comments, but I need room to post code :)

Here's my code, at the end of loaders.py:

def render_text(text, data, request):
    env = Environment(extensions=['jinja2.ext.i18n'])
    template = env.from_string(text)
    context = RequestContext(request, data)
    return shortcuts.render_to_string(template, context)

and it returns an error:

dictionary update sequence element #0 has length 1; 2 is required