The autoescape parameter to Engine() seems to have no effect on Context.

[Roman Donchenko]

The reference documentation for django.template.Engine says ​the following:

• autoescape controls whether HTML autoescaping is enabled. It defaults to True.

Based on this, I would expect the following to print <>:

import django.template
django.template.Engine(autoescape=False)
t = e.from_string('{{x}}')
print(t.render(django.template.Context({'x': '<>'})))

But it doesn't, it prints <>. So it seems that the autoescape parameter does nothing.

Either the code should be updated to make the parameter work, or the docs should explain what it actually does.

[bcail]

I see the same result. It looks like the Context object has an autoescape parameter (which defaults to True) - so that may sort of be overriding the engine value. But, I'm not sure the engine value is always checked where it should be.

[Mariusz Felisiak]

Context has it's own autoescape parameter that engine shouldn't override. You can pass Context with autoespace=False or use render_to_string() with a template name.