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tnrich
tnrich

Reputation: 8580

Problems passing a dictionary to a template in Django

I am having trouble with what seems to be a simple problem:

I want to pass a dictionary to a template, and then have the template render that dictionary on the page. However, when I run the page, the dictionary doesn't show up...

Here's my views page:

def display_meta(request):
    values = request.META.items()
    values.sort()
    c = Context(values)
    return render_to_response('meta_data.html', c)

And here's my template:

{% extends "base.html" %}
{% block content %}
<table>
{% for k, v in c %}
<tr><td> {{k}} </td><td> {{v}} </td></tr>
{% endfor %}
</table>
{% endblock %}

I am not sure what is going wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 369

Answers (1)

Ngenator
Ngenator

Reputation: 11259

You need to pass context as a dict. You would do so like

def display_meta(request):
    values = request.META.items()
    values.sort()
    return render_to_response('meta_data.html', {'c': values})

Each key represents the variable that will be available, in this case c will be a dict with the items in values

Upvotes: 1

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