Recently, I needed some more presentation logic in my html templates than django templating language would allow, so I looked into getting Django 1.2 and Jinja2 playing nicely.

The main caveat is I also use the admin and have legacy parts of the site that still use the old django templates. So I was hoping to do both and it turned out to be easy! I can even review the context in the Django Debug Toolbar.

The Gist for it is here, just add a setting for the Jinja2 template directory and away you go!