I am looking for a quick way to retrieve values from a dictionary in templates

Question

I have the following situation:

{% if accounts.count > 0 %}
    {% for account in accounts %}
      <div>Balance:<b>{{ my_dict.account.id }}</b></div>
      <div><a href="/edit/{{ account.id }}"><button>Edit</button></a></div>
    {% endfor %}
{% else %}
    <p>...</p>
{% endif %}

.

Such arrangement is ok

my_dict.account

But I'll do something like that. I have two dots

my_dict.account.id

Is there any way to do this? It would be a good idea to create a variable in template but it does not work for me

Possible duplicate of [Django template how to look up a dictionary value with a variable](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8000022/django-template-how-to-look-up-a-dictionary-value-with-a-variable) — Geotob, May 04 '17 at 21:17
I do not want to create my own filter. So this is not the same thing — programmerJavaPL, May 04 '17 at 21:20
it is, nested dict lookup in templates are a bit annoying at times. just scroll down to this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/31363412/4033315. — Geotob, May 04 '17 at 21:21
@Geotob How to connect a loop to a loop in this situation? I do not want to display everything as in this example in the link. — programmerJavaPL, May 04 '17 at 21:23
@programmerJavaPL please provide a sample `my_dict` to see the structure. — John Moutafis, May 05 '17 at 09:38

Tim S. · Answer 1 · 2017-05-04T23:21:53.783

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Would be nice to see your my_dict dictionary structure: what is key (is it account id?)

It can be something like this:

my_dict[account.id]

Though if my_dict somehow doesn't have the key, you'll encounter an error. So you might wanna do this instead:

my_dict.get(account.id, 'default value')

'default value' is what will be returned in case if there's no such key in my_dict.

edited May 04 '17 at 23:21

answered May 04 '17 at 22:57

Tim S.

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I am looking for a quick way to retrieve values from a dictionary in templates

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