Jinja 2 safe keyword

The safe filter explicitly marks a string as "safe", i.e., it should not be automatically-escaped if auto-escaping is enabled.

The documentation on this filter is here.

See the section on manual escaping to see which characters qualify for escaping.

Normally text is HTML-escaped (so <b> would be written out as <b>, which would render as <b>).

When you put |safe after something, you're telling the template engine that you have already escaped the text yourself, i.e. "it's safe to render this directly". So it will not do that encoding for you.

For more information: http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/templates/#html-escaping

For anyone coming here looking to use the safe filter programmatically: wrap it in a markupsafe.Markup class, on which Jinja2 depends on.

Expanding on @data's answer, here's an example of using markupsafe.Markup:

import markupsafe
vals = {}
vals["name"] = markupsafe.Markup("<b>Duck</b>, Donald")
html = template.render(vals)

The resulting HTML will show Donald's last name in bold wherever the template contains {{name}}.