CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythondjango
gchino
gchino

Reputation: 9

trouble iterating through dictionary keys and values in django template

I am trying to iterate through a context dictionary in a template in django. So far I've been unsuccessful and I'm not understanding what it is wrong.

This is my view:

def main_view(request):
    cat_dict = {'Other': 0,
                  'Meeting': 0,
                  'Project 1': 0,
                  'Project 2': 0,
                  'Project 3': 0,
                  'Project 4': 0,
                  'Collaboration 1': 0,
                  'Collaboration 2': 0,
                  'Collaboration 3': 0,
                  'Process 1': 0
                  }
    my_dict = gCalScriptMain.gCalScript(cat_dict)
    return render(request, 'gCalData/gCalData_main.html', context=my_dict)

Instead, this is my template:

{% extends "base.html" %}
{% block content %}

<div class="jumbotron index-jumbotron">
    <h1 id="main-title">gCalData</h1>
    <ul style="color:white">

      {% for k,v in my_dict.items %}
          <li>{{ k }}: {{ v }}</li>

      {% endfor %}

    </ul>

</div>

{% endblock %}

But I get nothing (not even an error). The only thing I can do is retrieve a single value if I put this in the template:

{% extends "base.html" %}
{% block content %}

<div class="jumbotron index-jumbotron">
    <h1 id="main-title">gCalData</h1>
    <p style="color:white">{{ Other }}</p>

</div>

{% endblock %}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 272

Answers (1)

Aleksandar Varicak
Aleksandar Varicak

Reputation: 1068

context that you give to render function is dictionary of variables you can use in template. This means that you can use Other, Meeting, etc.

If you want to use your dictionary, then you need to do

...
return render(request, 'gCalData/gCalData_main.html', context={"my_dict": my_dict})

and then you can iterate over my_dict in template.

Upvotes: 1

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