Question

Problem is that i can’t get value to my template.

Views.py:

from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404, render_to_response
from django.httpimport HttpResponse


def index(request):
 c='hi'
 return render_to_response('list.html', c)

list.html:

{% extends "base.html" %}

{% block content %}
 list{{ c }}
{% endblock %}

It renders list but not{{ c }} what could cause this? And it gives no error..

Answer 1

render_to_response expects its context to be a dictionary, whereas you are passing your string directly:

def index(request):
    context = { 'c': 'hi' }
    return render_to_response('list.html', context)

Based on your comment below, if you want ‘c’ to be a list of things, it would look something like this instead:

def index(request):
    context = { 'c': ['hello', 'world'] }
    return render_to_response('list.html', context)

The basic idea is that you’re building a mapping of the variables you want to reference in your template. The names that you reference in the template are keys in the dictionary.