Actually it turned out this works!! My TextEdit app was being finnicky and made me re-write the entire code instead of just the quotation marks. Thanks for the help!
On Saturday, January 2, 2016 at 10:52:22 AM UTC-5, Matthew wrote: > > 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]> 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/584fd709-1068-431e-960e-25ba74b7112d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
