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

For my needs, I wanted a single template filter that would work for dicts, lists, and tuples. So, here's what I use:

@register.filter
def get_item(container, key):
    if type(container) is dict:
        return container.get(key)
    elif type(container) in (list, tuple):
        return container[key] if len(container) > key else None
    return None