Hi James, I turned smart quotes off and am still having the error. I wasn't aware that could cause future errors though, so thanks for the heads up!
On Saturday, January 2, 2016 at 12:44:22 AM UTC-5, James Schneider wrote: > > > On Jan 1, 2016 8:08 PM, "Matthew" <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm working through the masteringdjango book, and am struggling in the > Templates area. > > > > I created a base.html base template, and am attempting to include a > child template. > > > > This is the child template: > > > > {% extends “base.html” %} > > > > {% block title %}The current time{% endblock %} > > > > {% block content %} > > <p>It is now {{ current_date }}.</p> > > {% endblock %} > > > > When I run the site, I get the following error message: > > Could not parse the remainder: '“base.html”' from '“base.html”' > > > > And it points to the first line of the child template. > > > > I don't understand what I am doing wrong, please help. > > Was this template code primarily copied/pasted from an example? > > Can you try deleting and manually typing new quotes around the base.html > reference in your {% extends %} tag? > > Not sure if it's my email client or not, but those appear to be "smart > quotes", which lean left/right, usually automatically inserted by editor > applications like MS Word or possible from a translation from text to PDF > to make things "pretty". > > To a computer parser like the Django template system, those are > interpreted differently as regular characters rather than quotes, which > would explain the parser error you are receiving. Hard to spot, but I've > been bit by that type of subtle bug before. > > -James > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/c449d909-6411-4c55-985d-fb53f5a87316%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
