Re: Dictionary lookups in templates?

[Maniac]

JA wrote:
What I would like to do, is display an
entry of thumbNames based on the value of dirName.  Something like:

{% for dirName in dirList %}
   {{ dirName }} - {{ thumbNames.{{ dirName }} }}
{% endfor %}
 

This is not possible by design: Django tries to keep templates off 
becoming a programming language. You need to prepare the resulting list 
in your view and then pass it to a template:

Context(...{
 'dirList':[thumbNames[dirName] for dirName in dirList],
})