# ll -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 305 May 17 04:45 gen_conf.py drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 17 03:24 templates -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 May 17 03:15 vars.csv # cat templates/test.conf line 1 line 2 {% for item in items %}line {{ item }} {% endfor %} # cat vars.csv 3 4 5 # cat gen_conf.py from jinja2 import Environment, FileSystemLoader env = Environment(loader=FileSystemLoader('templates')) with open('vars.csv') as vars: var_list = [] for var in vars: var_list.append(var.strip()) template = env.get_template('test.conf') print template.render(items=var_list)