I need to programatically distinguish between Jinja template files, other template files (such as ERB), and template-less plain text files.
According to Jinja documentation:
A Jinja template doesn’t need to have a specific extension: .html, .xml, or any other extension is just fine.
But what should I use when an explicit extension is required? .py is misleading, and any search including the words "jinja" and "extension" are badly searchwashed by discussion around Jinja Extensions.
I could easily dictate a project-wide convention (.jnj or .ja come to mind) but this is for open source so I don't want to buck the trend if there's already established practice somewhere.
EDIT 1: Again, I understand that the Jinja project — purposefully — does not define a default file extension. I'm asking if there are any unofficial conventions that have emerged for circumstances where one is desired for some project-specific reason.
EDIT 2: Clarification: This is not for HTML content.
2021 update:: Jinja now officially recommends using the extension .jinja. See docs
2020 update:
Things changed since I wrote this answer, .jinja2 and .j2 are trending.
Jinja Authors did not define a default extension. Most of Jinja template editors like TextMate extension, Emacs extension, and PyCharm mention no default extension to enforce Jinja highlighting.
Django already had a request for setting such a default extension, which ended up as a wontfix issue after some debate. I quote from the closing message:
Filetype detection based on extension is flawed for the very reasons described in these comments, so you have to do some internal inspection, just like MIME type detection works.
I suggest that you should use your own since there is no common one.