And if  you like it you should just buy BBEdit from BareBones, been using it 
for years, it’s great.

François

> On Jan 2, 2016, at 11:13 AM, Lee Hinde <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> If you’re just getting your feet wet and don’t want to invest in an 
> editor/IDE just yet, try TextWrangler: 
> http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/  It’s free and won’t get in 
> your way.
> 
>> On Jan 2, 2016, at 8:11 AM, Matthew <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 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
>> 
> 
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