If you’re just getting your feet wet and don’t want to invest in an editor/IDE
just yet, try TextWrangler: http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/
<http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/> It’s free and won’t get in
your way.
> On Jan 2, 2016, at 8:11 AM, Matthew <mbd1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Actually it turned out this works!! My TextEdit app was being finnicky and
> made me re-write the entire code instead of just the quotation marks. Thanks
> for the help!
>
> On Saturday, January 2, 2016 at 10:52:22 AM UTC-5, Matthew wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> I turned smart quotes off and am still having the error. I wasn't aware that
> could cause future errors though, so thanks for the heads up!
>
> On Saturday, January 2, 2016 at 12:44:22 AM UTC-5, James Schneider wrote:
>
> On Jan 1, 2016 8:08 PM, "Matthew" <mbd...@gmail.com <>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm working through the masteringdjango book, and am struggling in the
> > Templates area.
> >
> > I created a base.html base template, and am attempting to include a child
> > template.
> >
> > This is the child template:
> >
> > {% extends “base.html” %}
> >
> > {% block title %}The current time{% endblock %}
> >
> > {% block content %}
> > <p>It is now {{ current_date }}.</p>
> > {% endblock %}
> >
> > When I run the site, I get the following error message:
> > Could not parse the remainder: '“base.html”' from '“base.html”'
> >
> > And it points to the first line of the child template.
> >
> > I don't understand what I am doing wrong, please help.
>
> Was this template code primarily copied/pasted from an example?
>
> Can you try deleting and manually typing new quotes around the base.html
> reference in your {% extends %} tag?
>
> Not sure if it's my email client or not, but those appear to be "smart
> quotes", which lean left/right, usually automatically inserted by editor
> applications like MS Word or possible from a translation from text to PDF to
> make things "pretty".
>
> To a computer parser like the Django template system, those are interpreted
> differently as regular characters rather than quotes, which would explain the
> parser error you are receiving. Hard to spot, but I've been bit by that type
> of subtle bug before.
>
> -James
>
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