Question

I have a template to render but since it has some tags too it’s getting difficult to access particular strings.The code goes like this:

   template="""
   <select>
   <option {% if record.views = '%s' %} selected {% endif %}>'%s'
   </select>
   """%(pop, pop)

Here I want the value of pop but it gives an error that:

    Caught TypeError while rendering: not enough arguments for format string

Any solution how can i access those string format.
Thanks

Answer 1

You need to double the % signs:

template="""
   <select>
   <option {%% if record.views = '%s' %%} selected {%% endif %%}>'%s'
   </select>
   """%(pop, pop)

yields

<select>
<option {% if record.views = '1' %} selected {% endif %}>'1'
</select>

for pop=’1′