Accessing a dict by variable in Django templates?

Question

My view code looks basically like this:

context = Context() 
context[\'my_dict\'] = {\'a\': 4, \'b\': 8, \'c\': 15, \'d\': 16, \'e\': 23, \'f\': 42 }
context         


        

Answer 1

Here's a usage case of the suggested answer.

In this example, I created a generic template for outputting tabular data from a view. Meta data about the columns is held in context["columnMeta"].

Since this is a dictionary, i cannot rely on the keys to output the columns in order, so i have the keys in a separate list for this.

In my view.py:

c["columns"] = ["full_name","age"]
c["columnMeta"] = {"age":{},"full_name":{"label":"name"}}

In my templatetags file:

@register.filter
def getitem ( item, string ):
  return item.get(string,'')

In my template:

{% for key in columns %}

 
    
   {{columnMeta|getitem:key|getitem:"label"|default:key}}
  

{% endfor %}