How to put braces in django templates?

Question

I need to produce an id surrounded by braces ( for example "{1234}" ). With the django template language, braces are also used to start a variable substitution, so I have some trouble in obtaining what I want. I tried

{{{ id }}} {{ '{'id'}' }} {{ '{'+id+'}' }} { {{ id }} } 

None of these methods work, except the last one, which unfortunately produces "{ 1234 }", not what I want. I currently have two solutions : either I pass an id variable already containing the {} (ugly) or I write a custom filter and then write {{ id|add_braces }} (I prefer it).

Before going this way, I prefer to ask if a better solution exists.

Using escaped values does not work. Even if I add {% autoescape off %}%7B{% endautoescape %} I don't get the {, which is strange, but that's another problem.

Thanks

Edit: I wrote a quick filter. Pasting it here so someone else can use it as a template for writing a more complex one. To be put into python package application_path/templatetags/formatting.py

from django import template from django.template.defaultfilters import stringfilter  register = template.Library()  @register.filter @stringfilter def add_braces(value):     return "{"+value+"}" 

Answer 1

I think your answer can be found here:

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins/#templatetag

In short, you want to use {% templatetag openbrace %} and {% templatetag closebrace %}.

Edit: Django now also includes this functionality out of the box:

{% verbatim %} {{ blah blah }} {% endverbatim %} 

Answer 2

{% templatetag openbrace %} become extremely verbose for e.g. javascript templates

I've used the verbatim tag from this gist with some success for exactly this purpose which lets you do something like

{{ request.user }} {% verbatim %}      brackets inside here are left alone, which is handy for e.g. jquery templates      {{ this will be left }}      {% so will this %} {% endverbatim }}  {% more regular tags (to be replaced by the django template engine %}