Re: Django tutorial part 3: Always shows raw HTML

To go a bit further: never use TextEdit to edit source code of any kind, even in plain text mode. It's simply not designed for that. TextWrangler makes a great source editor and has some very handy features. However, for full-blown projects with many source files, etc. you may find it easier to use

Re: Django tutorial part 3: Always shows raw HTML

Text Wranger is a plain-text only editor, whereas TextEdit is a rich text editor by default (you can toggle plain text). This means that when you type HTML characters in to TextEdit, such as *Blah*, you're not getting true *<>* characters, but something like *<* (<) and *>* (>). So your template pr

Re: Django tutorial part 3: Always shows raw HTML

I am SO SORRY, and in the future I promise to wait at least a week before posting my problems to see if I can figure it out in the meantime. I fixed this by saving the file in TextWrangler instead of TextEdit, and now it interprets the HTML properly. If anyone knows *why* this fixes the problem,

Django tutorial part 3: Always shows raw HTML

I'm currently going through the Django tutorial, and everything was going perfectly smoothly until the template part. This is what I always get for the polls/index.html: http://pastebin.com/ng9iGNRp I noticed that it gets everything right (the {{ poll.id }} is 1, there's no other error) but ju