On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:25 PM, HumanSimulator
<thehumansimula...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I apologize if this has been discussed before but I did search and
> wasn't able to find what I'm looking for.
>
> Anyways, I'm currently writing a very simplistic text adventure style
> game in Django and what I'm looking for is to store a template var in
> the database and then render it.
>
> Like say I have
>
> zone_text = "A shadowy figure comes up to you and says 'Hey
> {{ character.name }} I've been waiting for you"
>
> If character.name is passed in through the context as "Hernan" I would
> obviously want it to show up as Hey Hernan I've been waiting for you.
> Instead it leaves it unevaluated though.
>
> Is there already a way either in Django, or that someone has already
> coded that will re-parse the text and put out the correct sentence? I
> don't want to re-invent the wheel if it's already been done.
>
> Thank you for your help.
> -Bob
>
You will need to render it:
from django.template import RequestContext, Template
zone_text = '...'
rendered_zone_text =
Template(zone_text).render(RequestContext(request, { 'foo': 'bar' })
Cheers
Tom
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