Sometimes printing variable or object contents saves you a lot of time. It will work if you have DEBUG = True in your settings.py You can put in your views {{{ raise Exception(your_variable_here) }}} to see variable data. It will work for dictionaries, lists, objects(you'll see references) etc Also you can list object attributes: {{{ raise Exception(dir(some_object)) }}} or all internal object fields: {{{ raise Exception(some_object.__dict__) }}} information was found on [http://softwaremaniacs.org/forum/ Software Maniacs forums]