Question

{% include "example.html" with name="John" hide_last_name=True %}

Basically, I am trying to include “example.html” as a sub-template in my main template. Additional context is provided with the mean of passing the keyword arguments name and hide_last_name. While the django template system has no trouble recognize name, it somehow just can’t recognize hide_last_name. I suspect the use of boolean keyword argument in Include tag is now allowed but then I can’t find anywhere in the official docs mentions that. Please help out. Thanks.

Answer 1

Update: This answer applies to old versions of Django. See this answer below for Django >=1.5

Django template would treat the True as a variable and try to find it in context.
You could either use non-empty string to represent the true value or assign the true value to the True in context, for example through TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS:

def common_vars(request):
    return {
        'True': True,
        'False': False,
        'newline': '\n',
        ...
    }