How to access a dictionary element in a Django template?

you can use the dot notation:

Dot lookups can be summarized like this: when the template system encounters a dot in a variable name, it tries the following lookups, in this order:

• Dictionary lookup (e.g., foo["bar"])
• Attribute lookup (e.g., foo.bar)
• Method call (e.g., foo.bar())
• List-index lookup (e.g., foo[2])

The system uses the first lookup type that works. It’s short-circuit logic.

choices = {'key1':'val1', 'key2':'val2'}

Here's the template:

<ul>
{% for key, value in choices.items %} 
  <li>{{key}} - {{value}}</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>

Basically, .items is a Django keyword that splits a dictionary into a list of (key, value) pairs, much like the Python method .items(). This enables iteration over a dictionary in a Django template.