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Shalabh Aggarwal
Shalabh Aggarwal
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Shalabh Aggarwal

Shalabh Aggarwal has more than 13 years' experience in developing and managing enterprise systems, as well as web and mobile applications for small-to large-scale industries. He started his career working on Python, and although he now works on multiple technologies, he remains a Python developer at heart. He is passionate about open source technologies and writes highly readable and quality code. He is a seasoned engineering leader who loves building engineering teams and products from scratch across multiple domains while leveraging different technologies. He is also active in voluntary training for engineering students on non-conventional and open source topics. When not working with full-time assignments, he consults for start-ups on leveraging different technologies. When not writing code, he writes technical and non-technical literature, which is published across multiple blogs.
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Creating a custom macro for forms

Macros allow us to write reusable pieces of HTML blocks. They are analogous to functions in regular programming languages. We can pass arguments to macros as we do to functions in Python, and we can then use them to process an HTML block. Macros can be called any number of times, and the output will vary as per the logic inside them. In this recipe, let's understand how to write a macro in Jinja2.

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Macros in Jinja2 are a very common topic and have a lot of use cases. Here, we will just take a look at how a macro can be created and then used after importing it.

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Shalabh Aggarwal

Shalabh Aggarwal has more than 13 years' experience in developing and managing enterprise systems, as well as web and mobile applications for small-to large-scale industries. He started his career working on Python, and although he now works on multiple technologies, he remains a Python developer at heart. He is passionate about open source technologies and writes highly readable and quality code. He is a seasoned engineering leader who loves building engineering teams and products from scratch across multiple domains while leveraging different technologies. He is also active in voluntary training for engineering students on non-conventional and open source topics. When not working with full-time assignments, he consults for start-ups on leveraging different technologies. When not writing code, he writes technical and non-technical literature, which is published across multiple blogs.
Read more about Shalabh Aggarwal