How to open a file and get content from a jinja template

Asked Sep 28 '18 at 07:51

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I want a put a random line from a file using jinja template.

for ex: I have a list of names (1000+) stored in a file. I want to pick a random name from that file and put it in template.

something like below:

Name={{ import_file_as_list("name_samples.txt") | random }}

Is it possible? How can we achieve so using jinja without changing the rendering logic?

Note: I can not modified the rendering logic (python file), as I am using a rest api to render.

asked Sep 28 '18 at 07:51

Jay Joshi

Check out https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4828406/import-a-python-module-into-a-jinja-template, then import the random module and use random.choice() – 576i Sep 28 '18 at 07:57
@JayJoshi you can't if you use only api. – Danila Ganchar Sep 28 '18 at 08:00

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