How to put braces in django templates?

Question

I need to produce an id surrounded by braces ( for example \"{1234}\" ). With the django template language, braces are also used to start a variable substitution, so I have

Answer 1

{% templatetag openbrace %} become extremely verbose for e.g. javascript templates

I've used the verbatim tag from this gist with some success for exactly this purpose which lets you do something like

{{ request.user }}
{% verbatim %}
     brackets inside here are left alone, which is handy for e.g. jquery templates
     {{ this will be left }}
     {% so will this %}
{% endverbatim }}

{% more regular tags (to be replaced by the django template engine %}