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33431	Regroup Violates Syntax Expectations	Caleb White	nobody	"I would like to re-report the following issue from 16 years ago: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/1461

I hope that it is obvious why it would be useful to dynamically resolve this variable.

I spent a long time trying to figure out why `group_key.grouper` was always `None` for me, and it's because the variable I'm using as the grouping token is being treated as a string rather than a variable.

Honestly this seems like a serious design flaw in the template language itself - why are unquoted tokens ever treated as strings? How is the user of the template language supposed to know whether a given token will be resolved as a variable or treated as a literal string? This is very confusing and I can't find any explanation in the documentation of why this is the case. I can't think of any benefit gained by all of this ambiguity, so I imagine the only reason not to change this is going to be backwards compatibility.

As far as I can tell, this bug is present in every version of Django."	Bug	closed	Template system	3.2	Normal	duplicate	regroup		Unreviewed	0	0	0	0	0	0