Variables & Functions Accessible inside Tornado Templates

Function	Result
_	An alias for the locale.translate() function.
current_user	The current_user object as returned by RequestHandler.get_current_user()
datetime	The datetime module. Example: {{ datetime.date.today().year }} returns the current year
escape	A function that escapes a string so it is valid within XML or XHTML.
handler	The request handler that called the self.render function to process the template. Example: {{handler.static_url('foo')}} will run the static_url function in RequestHandler returning a full URL path, pre-pending static_url.
json_encode	A function that JSON-encodes the given Python object.
locale	The locale value as returned by RequestHandler.get_user_locale().
request	The request object that is passed into the Request Handler.
reverse_url	Given a full module and class (myapp.Homepage) it will look at the handler to URI mapping and return the URL for the given class.
squeeze	A function that replaces all sequences of whitespace chars with a single space.
static_url	The value of the static_url property passed in to the application settings.
url_escape	A function that returns a valid URL-encoded version of the given value.
xsrf_form_html	If using the cross-site forgery protection, this function returns the hidden input field containing the xrsf variable.