Creating an instance of the Jinja Environment

jinja_env.py

import os

import jinja2
import webapp2

# Jinja Environment instance necessary to use Jinja templates.
jinja_env = jinja2.Environment(
  loader=jinja2.FileSystemLoader(os.path.dirname(__file__)),
  autoescape=True)

class MainHandler(webapp2.RequestHandler):
    def get(self):
        template = jinja_env.get_template("templates/moviequotes.html")
        self.response.out.write(template.render({}))