Accessing dict elements with leading underscores in Django Templates

Question

I am trying to access elements of a dict with keys that start with the underscore character. For example:

my_dict = {\"_source\": \'xyz\'}

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Answer 1

In my case, if I know the dict elements, and it's only one, I prefer to rename the dict key using pop:

my_dict['new_key'] = my_dict.pop('_old_key')

That way I get a new name on the dict, and I can access in the template without problems.