Django Template if tag not working under FastCGI when checking bool True

Question

I have a strange issue specific to my Django deployment under Python 2.6 + Ubuntu + Apache 2.2 + FastCGI.

If I have a template as such:

{% with True as something %}
   {%if something%}
      It Worked!!!
   {%endif%}
{%endwith%}

it should output the string "It Worked!!!". It does not on my production server with mod_fastcgi.

This works perfectly when I run locally with runserver.

I modified the code to the following to make it work for the sake of expediency, and the problem went away.

{% with "True" as something %}
   {%if something%}
      It Worked!!!
   {%endif%}
{%endwith%}

It seems that the template parser, when running under FastCGI, cannot ascertain Truthiness (or Truthitude)[kudos if you get the reference] of bool variables.

Has anyone seen this? Do you have a solution?

Answer 1

Hmm... True is not a valid token in django template language, is it? I have no idea how it worked locally -- unless it's being added to the context with a non-zero value somewhere. Therefore, I think your second problem may not be related to the first one.