print the value of a variable in Python/Django?

Question

In PHP I\'m used to being able to do print $var or print_r($var).

I can print variables in my views in python but they end up in my cmd win

Answer 1

{{ this_is_my_variable_that_is_passed_to_my_view }}

the {{ allow variable access to the item which will call the items __unicode__ function if it exists otherwise it will call its __str__ function