Question

I have a strange issue specific to my Django deployment under Python 2.6 + Ubuntu + Apache 2.2 + FastCGI.

If I have a template as such:

{% with True as something %}    {%if something%}       It Worked!!!    {%endif%} {%endwith%} 

it should output the string ‘It Worked!!!’. It does not on my production server with mod_fastcgi.

This works perfectly when I run locally with runserver.

I modified the code to the following to make it work for the sake of expediency, and the problem went away.

{% with 'True' as something %}    {%if something%}       It Worked!!!    {%endif%} {%endwith%} 

It seems that the template parser, when running under FastCGI, cannot ascertain Truthiness (or Truthitude)[kudos if you get the reference] of bool variables.

Has anyone seen this? Do you have a solution?

Answer 1

Hmm… True is not a valid token in django template language, is it? I have no idea how it worked locally — unless it’s being added to the context with a non-zero value somewhere. Therefore, I think your second problem may not be related to the first one.