yes it is possible. just use this template.py file 
(https://github.com/web2py/web3py/blob/master/gluon/template.py) has no 
dependencies and the render function therein.

On Sunday, 10 April 2016 10:07:48 UTC-5, [email protected] wrote:
>
> On that note, is it possible to use web2py template language in Django? 
> Does anyone know.
>
> On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 10:18:59 AM UTC-4, [email protected] 
> wrote:
>>
>> If you are not comfortable with django ORM you can also use SQLalchemy . 
>> Use that in web2py first to verify your model. And then you can copy and 
>> replace in django. Here is a way to replace the django ORM with SQLAlchemy. 
>>
>> http://lethain.com/replacing-django-s-orm-with-sqlalchemy/
>>
>> You will be in luck when they have a way to use pydal in django. But for 
>> now, this may be another option to bridge the gap between two. 
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 8:15:55 AM UTC-4, Bernard Letourmy wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>> Took me around 2 months working on a new project from scratch to feel 
>>> nearly as comfortable with django as I was in web2py (after having enjoyed 
>>> web2py for 2+ years)
>>> Although prepare to feel quite lot of pain along the way such
>>> As when you keep repeating yourself with declaring and connecting 
>>>  routes, controller (sorry view there) and templates till you find your own 
>>> way to auto generate the relations
>>> Prepare to cry about batteries missing, such as:
>>> - default user system with authentication views included, simple default 
>>> REST api support etc,
>>> -nice and automatically configured appadmin with dal query, g not only 
>>> basic CRUD)
>>> - a scheduler
>>> - having to always find from where  the hell  you need to import that 
>>> class  you use every day...
>>> - having to find it in a manual splitted in chapters without a nice 
>>> table of content and good index  system  that force you to use Google even 
>>> when you know it's in the manual.
>>>
>>> You''ll also miss the power and clean syntax of pydal. You will see when 
>>> you will try to do your first join with django orm...
>>> But ok once accustomed to the silly __ _id field__gte=x notations using 
>>> keywords argument instead of the clean field object and standard Python 
>>> Operators of pydal 
>>> You will enjoy quite  powerful object oriented interface on your models.
>>> With automatic reverse relation generations, very nice way to extend the 
>>> default model classes.
>>> Basically a lot of choices at all stages either inside the framework for 
>>> different ways to do the same thing or out there when it comes to find a 
>>> plugin (an app in django) that provides the missing feature.
>>> These being both advantages and inconvenience, explaining that it will 
>>> take certainly longer to be fully up and running with django than with 
>>> web2py
>>>
>>> Forgot one thing that's really nice with django:
>>> the migration system. It's less 'automatic' then web2py's one but more 
>>> powerful and reliable in my opinion as it allows forward and backwards 
>>> migration and stores its meta data in the DB instead of the filesystem 
>>> itself allowing you to easily switch DB backend and migrate them from the 
>>> same Dev env for ex.
>>> And one thing less nice
>>> The core dev community is quite opiniated/ and stuck on the by design 
>>> limitations...
>>> With the view/template system that force you to learn a new language 
>>> with expression being very restricted subset of Python
>>> And force to develop yourself most of the basic filter needed.
>>> Then quite a lot of won't fix issues or request for feature some 
>>> repeatidely asked for 10years
>>>
>>> But I do quite like django also :)
>>>
>>> Bon courage for your learning
>>> Bernard 
>>>
>>>

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