Numeric literals like "2." are incorrectly treated as Variables

[Johannes Dollinger]

>>> Variable("2.").resolve(Context())
...
VariableDoesNotExist: Failed lookup for key [2] in u'[{}]'
>>> Variable("2.").resolve(Context({"2": {"": "foo"}}))
'foo'

That should either be treated as a literal float(2) or raise TemplateSyntaxError.

[Russell Keith-Magee]

This needs some discussion - the docs are ambiguous on whether an integer can be used as the first (or only) character in a context variable.

[jjconti]

This doen't look like a bug. BTW, docs are clear: "Variable names must consist of any letter (A-Z), any digit (0-9), an underscore or a dot."

[jjconti]

This is behaviour is explicitly coded in Django source code: ​http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/template/__init__.py#L681

[James Bennett]

This is, as the comment above points out, by design; yes, Python accepts it as a float, but the Django template language isn't Python and doesn't support the same range of things.

[Jacob]

Milestone 1.2 deleted