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Asked: 2026-06-08T06:07:35+00:00

I am using python’s bottle framework to develop a simple web page. I am

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I am using python’s bottle framework to develop a simple web page. I am having trouble understanding how to pass a dictionary to a subtemplate. Example code:

mydictionary:

{
message: "Hello World",
...other template vars ... 
}

Router.py

@route('/index.html')
@view('index.tpl')
def index():
    return mydictionary

views/index.tpl

<body>
%include subpage1 ......  <-- need to pass mydictionary here
...other stuff ...
</body>

views/subpage1.tpl

<div>This is a test: {{message}}</div>

The documentation page states:

*The %include Statement: You can include other templates using the %include sub_template [kwargs] statement. The sub_template parameter
specifies the name or path of the template to be included. The rest of
the line is interpreted as a comma-separated list of key=statement
pairs similar to keyword arguments in function calls. They are passed
to the sub-template analogous to a SimpleTemplate.render() call. The
**kwargs syntax for passing a dict is allowed too*:

However, no example is given on how to pass dictionary with this **kwargs to subtemplates. Anyone ever done this? If I just say %include subpage1 mydictionary, bottle complains mydictionary is undefined (even though mydictionary is a global dict [defined in Router.py]).

regards
GA

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  1. Editorial Team

    I got around this by doing the following in the template file:

    views/index.tpl

    <body>
%from mydictfile import * <-- importing mydict here
%include subpage1 mydict  
...other stuff ...
</body>

    mydictfile:

    mydict = {
message: "Hello World",
...other template vars ... 
}

    This seems to be working for me.

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