Pekin

Pekin is a simple templating engine for Python.

Why Pekin?

Pekin is designed for simplicity, security, and compatibility.

Unlike other templating engines, Pekin barely uses regex, which means fewer errors. It has no package requirements.

Pekin is extremely lightweight — it only weighs 9 kilobytes.

✨ Features

Filters and parameters
Escaping
Loops
Conditionals
Executable Python
HTML escaping
Helpers (extensions)
Partials
Comments
Easier template syntax
Customizable template security

📦 Installation

You need to install Git CMD to download Pekin for Python.

Go to your Git CMD and type:

git clone "https://github.com/cardinal9999/Pekin"
cd Pekin
py

📜 Docs

The Pekin Docs page shows you how to code with Pekin in Python. It shows you all of the features in the Pekin templating engine.

🎯 Basics

[!-- Comments start with '!--' and end with '--'. --]
[~Escaping brackets~]
[variables_example]
[!-- If statement --]
[if 2 + 2 == 4 | var]
[!-- Loop --]
[each *vars | it + 3]
Length: [length | var]
HTML Escape: [htmlescape | var]

👨‍💻 Using Pekin API

import pekin
template = """
your template here
"""
a = pekin.Duck(template)
rendered = a.render(parameters = "add your variables here")

🦆 Help Improve Pekin!

Post an issue or pull request to help improve Pekin.