How do I access dictionary keys that contain hyphens from within a Django template?

Question

We have a system built on a custom database, where many of the attributes are named containing hyphens, ie:

user-name
phone-number

These pr

Answer 1

OrderedDict dictionary types support dashes: https://docs.python.org/2/library/collections.html#ordereddict-objects

This seems to be a side effect of the implementation of OrderedDict. Notice below that the key value pairs are actually passed in as sets. I would bet that the implementation of OrderedDict doesn't use the "key" passed in the set as a true dict key thus getting around this issue.

Since this is a side-effect of the implementation of OrderedDict, it may not be something you want to rely on. But it works.

from collections import OrderedDict

my_dict = OrderedDict([
    ('has-dash', 'has dash value'), 
    ('no dash', 'no dash value') 
])

print( 'has-dash: ' + my_dict['has-dash'] )
print( 'no dash: ' + my_dict['no dash'] )

Result:

has-dash: has dash value
no dash: no dash value