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| author | Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com> | 2010-09-13 05:08:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm.tredinnick@gmail.com> | 2010-09-13 05:08:24 +0000 |
| commit | 783656cf5ba0e38fb0bf915019e6a720d47a9baf (patch) | |
| tree | 46ee611ca5e01311ee2a1acb3e8edeb91630b430 | |
| parent | 3d99526fc2b6b6d25d889ce206ea26c7036944b8 (diff) | |
Documented the permitted syntax for template variable names.
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@13822 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/topics/templates.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/topics/templates.txt b/docs/topics/templates.txt index 492d23d716..c3fdd2cf0e 100644 --- a/docs/topics/templates.txt +++ b/docs/topics/templates.txt @@ -79,7 +79,11 @@ Variables Variables look like this: ``{{ variable }}``. When the template engine encounters a variable, it evaluates that variable and replaces it with the -result. +result. Variable names consist of any combination of alphanumeric characters +and the underscore (``"_"``). The dot (``"."``) also appears in variable +sections, although that has a special meaning, as indicated below. +Importantly, *you cannot have spaces or punctuation characters in variable +names.* Use a dot (``.``) to access attributes of a variable. |