TemplateSyntaxError: 'if' statement improperly formatted

[dhruvg]

{% if total_feed_approvals != 0 or total_dataset_approvals != 0 %}
<form method="post" action="../user/approvals">
{% endif %}

what is wrong with the above statement?

i have tried it with quotes around the 0 like "0" and that doesn't
help.

is it because there is an 'or'? i think complex expressions are
allowed in django.

thanks in advance.

[Shawn Milochik]

The problem is that you're using Python syntax instead of template tags.

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins/

[dhruvg]

Could you elaborate?
The documentation indicates that complex expressions follow Python
exactly.

or
and
not
in
==, !=, <, >,``<=``, >=
(This follows Python exactly). So, for example, the following complex
if tag:

{% if a == b or c == d and e %}
..will be interpreted as:

(a == b) or ((c == d) and e)

[Ramiro Morales]

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 10:33 PM, dhruvg <dhruv...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Could you elaborate?
> The documentation indicates that complex expressions follow Python
> exactly.

I suspect you are using django 1.1.x and reading theDjango SVN trunk
documentation.

--
Ramiro Morales  |  http://rmorales.net

[Shawn Milochik]

Yeah, sorry. I linked you to the trunk page.

Try this one:

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/ref/templates/builtins/

Shawn

[Biju Varghese]

hi
If you want to compare the value you have to use ifequal or
ifnotequal tag in template language. if you use "if"
this will check only weather the variable is empty or not....

[Lee Sparks]

Its also important to use {% endifequal %} So...went passing to HTML templates

{% ifequal rowvalue "Blue" %}
   <p> Its Blue <p>
{% endifequal %}

L.