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Django: Web Development with Python
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Django: Web Development with Python

by Samuel Dauzon, Aidas Bendoraitis, Arun Ravindran
August 2016
Beginner to intermediate
717 pages
15h 24m
English
Packt Publishing
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Integrating variables in templates

In our controller, we send a variable named my_var. We can display it in a <span> tag in the following way. Add the following lines in the <article> tag of our template tag:

<span> {{my_var}} </ span> 

In this way, because our variable contains string = "Hello World!", the HTML code that will be generated is as follows:

<span> Hello World! </span>

We will learn how to create conditions for variables or functions in order to filter the data in the variables in the following examples.

Conditional statements

Language templates also allow conditional structures. Note that for a display variable, double brackets {{}} are used, but once we have an action to be made as a condition or loop, we will use {%%}.

Our controller ...

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