looking at the google web eng example;

{% for greeting in greetings %}
  {% if greeting.author %}
    <b>{{ greeting.author }}</b> wrote:
  {% else %}
    An anonymous person wrote:
  {% endif %}
  <blockquote>{{ greeting.content|escape }}</blockquote>
{% endfor %}

so what i want is: when this iterates, i need to somehow check greeting.author agains some variable that exists in javascript, and then do some other stuff. is it possible to do it?

looking at the google web eng example;

{% for greeting in greetings %}
  {% if greeting.author %}
    <b>{{ greeting.author }}</b> wrote:
  {% else %}
    An anonymous person wrote:
  {% endif %}
  <blockquote>{{ greeting.content|escape }}</blockquote>
{% endfor %}

so what i want is: when this iterates, i need to somehow check greeting.author agains some variable that exists in javascript, and then do some other stuff. is it possible to do it?

• javascript
• google-app-engine
• jinja2

1 Answer 1

{% for greeting in greetings %}
  {% if greeting.author %}
    <b>{{ greeting.author }}</b> wrote:
  {% else %}
    An anonymous person wrote:
  {% endif %}
  <blockquote>{{ greeting.content|escape }}</blockquote>
  <script type="text/javascript">
     var greeting_author = "{{ greeting.author }}";
     if(greeting_author === someVariable){
        // do other stuff here
     }
  </script>
{% endfor %}

Basically, you can just print the variable as js. Keep the type in mind (for example put "" around them for strings).