dict keys with spaces in Django templates

Question

I am trying to present a dictionary from my view.py at the HTML template such as:

test = { 'works': True, 'this fails':False }

and in the template:

This works without a problem:

{{ test.works }}

But a dictionary key that is having an empty space between words such as 'this fails' doesn't work:

{{ test.this fails }}

I get this error:

Could not parse the remainder: ' fails' from 'this fails'

How can I overcome this problem? I am not the one filling the models, so I can't change the keys of the dict to remove spaces.

Answer 1

The filter you want is something like

@register.filter(name='getkey')
def getkey(value, arg):
    return value[arg]

And used with

{{test|getkey:'this works'}}

source: http://www.bhphp.com/blog4.php/2009/08/17/django-templates-and-dictionaries