This is part of Django's philosophy of keeping executable code outside the templates. Consider this: it shouldn't be possible, or at least easy, for someone to run arbitrary code inside your templates ...

Nevertheless, Django engineers refer to the framework’s architecture as being “MTV” — model, template, view — as a way of separating the different concerns of the package.

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