Using string literals as parameters to template tags in Django templates

Question

One of the things I find myself doing often is passing string literals as parameters to template tags or functions; for instance:

{% url my-url \'my_param\'          


        

Answer 1

Very wierd - I have a django project that uses single quotes to pass a string value and it functions just fine.

<a href="{% url categories 'vendor' %}"</a>
<a href="{% url categories 'crew' %}"</a>

On further investigation it turns out this has changed in django 1.5. It now requires the quotes even around the url pattern name.

Answer 2

This feels wrong but is right.

<a href="{% url someting "param1" "param2" %}">text</a>

The nested ""'s don't seem like they should work. They do. The Django {% %} material is simply pulled out of the HTML without regard for surrounding context. So the "duplicated" "'s aren't really duplicated at all.

Answer 3

Use double quotes instead of single quotes:

{% url my_view "my_param" %}