Getting serialized json objects from django templates?

Question

I need a clarification. If I for example do a view with a serialized object:

def sample(request):
    res = [{'name':'man'}]
    encoded = json.dumps(res)
    return render_to_response('sample/example.html',{'encoded':encoded} )

In my templates I pass:

{{encoded}}

Now from a python script can I do:

data = json.loads(urllib2.urlopen(url/to/site).read()

It says ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded. But isn't {{encoded}} a json object? And if so how would I get it?

Thank you

Answer 1

Try this in your template:

{% autoescape off %} 
  {{ encoded }}
{% endautoescape %}