Question

I am using templates with django. I am having a problem where the Context is not being rendered. The meta_k is null. The meta_description is not.

 t = get_template('projects.html')   
 html = t.render(Context({
       'completed': completed, 
       'current':current, 
       'description': sp.description, 
       'project_title':sp.name, 
       'img':images, 
       'meta_desc': sp.meta_description, 
       'meta_k:': sp.meta_keywords
 }))

I can start the server in debug mode in eclipse and So I know sp.meta_keywords is not null. Here is where I call the code in projects.html:

{% block meta_keywords %}<br>
{% if meta_k %}<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;{{ meta_k }}<br>
{% else %}<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Venkat, Rao, engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, projects, blue dart, control systems, labview<br>
{% endif %}<br>
{% endblock %}

This defaults to the else when I know meta_k should not be null. The complete code can be found here on Google Code.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

So I was just making stupid mistake:

In the rendering file I have:

html = t.render(Context({'completed': completed, 'current':current, 'description': sp.description, 'project_title':sp.name, 'img':images, 'meta_desc': sp.meta_description, 'meta_k:': sp.meta_keywords)

this refers to “meta_k:” note the semicolon

in the template I have

{% if meta_k %}

note no semicolon

If I remove the semicolon it works. That was stupid.