On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 17:05 -0400, Alex Gaynor wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Jason Wang <randomt...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         
>         Hi all,
>         
>         I have a problem where i have a list which stores a bunch of
>         relevant
>         key to another dictionary. I want to loop through the list and
>         print
>         out the information contained in the keys to output.
>         
>         Apparently it doesn't work.
[...]

> 
> Write a template filter that does the lookup against the variable.

To provide some more context to what Alex wrote... this is an
intentional feature of the template system. It wasn't written for Python
programmers, but for designers, so is kept as simple as possible. The
general motto is "no programming in templates".

Here are a couple of longer explanations about the rationale from the
archives of this list:

http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/c7e3496fae2e1a31/d2e46c4ceac5e88f#d2e46c4ceac5e88f
http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/aee730e9b285773f/993532cb8bfb4dd3#993532cb8bfb4dd3

Regards,
Malcolm


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