How to check if a dict's member is equal to a string in Jinja2

Question

I have a Jinja2 Template that I am serving in flask that looks somthing like this:

{% if current_user.UserType == “Admin” %}
Stuff
{% endif %}

However I am getting an error like this

TemplateSyntaxError: unexpected char u'\u201c' at 860

What is the proper way to check a key's value in Jinja2?

I think you're doing it correctly, the problem looks like those [fancy/curly quotes](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3428876/how-to-remove-curly-quotes) around `“Admin”`; see [UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u201c' in position 34: ordinal not in range(128)](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24264892/unicodeencodeerror-ascii-codec-cant-encode-character-u-u201c-in-position-3) — chickity china chinese chicken, Mar 14 '17 at 00:15
You're right, thanks for some reason Jekyll was converting the quotes to the fancy ones — Mark Omo, Mar 14 '17 at 00:18

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 14 '17 at 00:20

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It looks like the problem was the one downshift mentioned with encoding, I was under the impression that it was somthing to do with the jinja2 syntax but,

{% if current_user.UserType == "Admin" %}
Stuff
{% endif %}

works just fine.

answered Mar 14 '17 at 00:20

Mark Omo

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score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 14 '17 at 05:32

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Use bracket notation:

{% if current_user["UserType"] == “Admin” %}
Stuff
{% endif %}

Or the get method:

{% if current_user.get("UserType") == “Admin” %}
Stuff
{% endif %}

Also use Google

answered Mar 14 '17 at 05:32

Allie Fitter

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How to check if a dict's member is equal to a string in Jinja2

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