Django template: access inner dictionary - django

Question

A newbie django template question, hope to get some pointers.
I'm passing back a dictionary to render to html for a page. The structure of the dictionary is like the following:
dic:{
"names":["name1", "name2", "name3"],
"names1":{
"addresses":["address1","address2","address3"],
"key2":[......]
......
}
"name2":{......}
}
How do I access the inner dictionaries? The only way to know the keys for those inner dictionaries is from the list, but I was unable to iterate through values pointed by key "names" and use that value as a key to get the other dictionary. I have looked into writing customer filters/tags but not sure exactly how to proceed.

Answer 1

Use items, from django docs:
{% for key, value in data.items %}
{{ key }}: {{ value }}
{% endfor %}
I tested it with your example:
In template:
<ul>
{% for l1_key, l1_value in dic.items %}
<li>{{ l1_key }}:
<ul>
{% for l2_key, l2_value in l1_value.items %}
<li>{{ l2_key }}: {{ l2_value }}</li>
{% empty %}
<li>{{ l1_value }}</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
This will output something like:
- name2:
- address: [1, 2, 3]
- names:
- ['name1', 'name2', 'name3']
- names1:
- key2: [1, 2]
- addresses: ['address1', 'address2', 'address3']
items return a list of tuples formed by (key, value)
I used this dic (fix minor problems in your example):
dic = {
"names":["name1", "name2", "name3"],
"names1":{
"addresses":["address1","address2","address3"],
"key2":[1,2]
},
"name2":{'address':[1,2,3]}
}