Why can't I do a hyphen in Django template view?

Question

{{profile.first-name.value}}

My variable is hypeh only...I wish I could do first_name, but many variables are hyphens. However, due to this problem, I can't display my variables in the template. Why?

Answer 1

The hyphen is an operator in Python. It would work better if you swapped all hyphens for underscores.