Ticket #1169: django-core-template-loader.py.diff

django/core/template/loader.py

@@ -97 +97 @@
         context_instance = Context(dictionary)
     return t.render(context_instance)
 
+def render_to_file(template_name, file_path, mode='w', dictionary=None, context_instance=None):
+    """
+    Loads the given template_name and renders it, with the given dictionary as
+    context, to a file on disk.  The template_name may be a string to load a
+    single template using get_template, or it may be a tuple to use
+    select_template to find one of the templates in the list.  file_path defines
+    the file that will be written to disk.  mode defaults to 'w' which will
+    create the file if it doesn't exist and will overwrite the file if it does
+    exist.
+    """
+    f = open(file_path, mode)
+    f.write(render_to_string(template_name, dictionary, context_instance))
+    f.close()
+
 def select_template(template_name_list):
     "Given a list of template names, returns the first that can be loaded."
     for template_name in template_name_list: