>> I'm beating my head up against the wall with this. Could anyone send
>> me some guidance?
>
> The short version is "You can't do that" - at least, not in the way
> you expect.
>
> Django's template language specifically tries to avoid being a
> programming language, and one of the things that has been
> (deliberately) left out along the way is array subscripting by
> variable. As you have discovered, this means you can subscript an
> array or dictionary by a constant, but not by a variable.
>
> If you want to extract element [X][Y] of some data structure, you need
> to write a template tag that will extract that element. The eventual
> syntax you will be using is something like:
>
> {% grant grants alpha beta %}
>
> That is, a template tag called "grant", operating on a data structure
> in the context called "grants", using the variables "alpha" and "beta"
> for lookup. For full details on writing your own template tag, see:
>
> http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-template-tags/#writing-custom-template-tags
>
> It may also be worth looking around djangosnippets.org - as you might
> expect, this is a fairly common question, so its entirely possible
> that there is a worked solution already there.
>
> Yours,
> Russ Magee %-)
Excellent. I had considered writing my own template tag (I've done so
before). But, I wasn't certain that, if I did so, it wouldn't be
"overkill" for this project. But, now I know there is no variable
lookup at all, I can work on creating my template tags.
Thanks again for the help, I couldn't find an answer doing any KB or
google searches.
All the best,
Glen Jarvis
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