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Asked: 2026-05-28T05:09:36+00:00

Here is my view. I am trying to simply display a table with the

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Here is my view. I am trying to simply display a table with the http meta data.

def display_request_meta_data(request):
    meta_data = request.META.items()
    meta_data.sort()
    for x, y in meta_data:  # output of this loop pasted below
        print x, y
    t = get_template('http_meta_data_table.html')
    html = t.render(Context(meta_data)) # I don't understand how to write this line correctly.
    return HttpResponse(html)

Here is what http_meta_data_table.html looks like:

<html>
<head>
    <title>HTTP Meta Data</title>
</head>
<body>
    <table>
        {% for key, value in meta_data %}
            <tr><td>{{key}}</td><td>{{value}}</td></tr>
        {% endfor %}
    </table>
</body> 
</html>

The loop that prints x, y returns the following (truncated, because there is a bunch of it):

Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render /tmp/launch-SvFjVB/Render
COLORFGBG 7;0
COMMAND_MODE unix2003
CONTENT_LENGTH 
CONTENT_TYPE text/plain
CSRF_COOKIE de982574e125805e307091fcd3f25d2e
DISPLAY /tmp/launch-d6usP9/org.x:0
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE mysite.settings
EDITOR mate -w
GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1
HOME /Users/me
etc...
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  1. Editorial Team

    Context expects a dictionary, mapping keys to values. By calling items(), you got a list of tuples instead:

    [('Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render', '/tmp/launch-SvFjVB/Render'), ...]

    Even if you turned this back into a dict (which will lose the ordering), you still cannot use it as a context, because the template doesn’t know a priori what keys are contained in it. Instead, pass meta_data as a value inside the dict:

    html = t.render(Context({'meta_data': meta_data}))

    Now saying meta_data in your template will call up the value associated with the key meta_data, which is a list, so your for tag will iterate over that list.

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