Accessing dictionary by key in Django template

Question

I'm passing a dictionary from my view to a template. So {"key1":"value1","key2":"value2"} is passed in and looping through key,value pairs is fine, however I've not found an elegant solution from access directly in the view from a specific key, say "key1" for example bu json.items["key1"]. I could use some if/then statements, but I'd rather do directly is there a way?

Here is looping code in the html template:

{% for key, value in json.items %}    <li>{{key}} - {{value}}</li>  {% endfor %} 

Answer 1

The Django template language supports looking up dictionary keys as follows:

{{ json.key1 }} 

See the template docs on variables and lookups.

The template language does not provide a way to display json[key], where key is a variable. You can write a template filter to do this, as suggested in the answers to this Stack Overflow question.