如何在Django 1.7中打印哈希并将其存储在数据库中？

Question

I created a hash that I am going to use later for confirmation email logic like this:

import hashlib, datetime, random 

def hash(request):
    username = 'johndoe' #inserted line to simplify the code
    random_str = str(random.random()).encode('utf-8')
    salt = hashlib.sha1(random_str).hexdigest()[:5]
    salted = (salt + username).encode('utf-8')
    activation_key = hashlib.sha1(salted).hexdigest()
    return render_to_response('ftest/display.html', activation_key)

My first question is how do I print this in the html so that I can see it when the html renders?

This doesn't seem to work in my display.html :

<p> This is the activation key {{activation_key}} </p>

Next, how would I define this hash field in the database? Would it just be a charfield like:

hash = models.CharField(max_length=200)

Answer 1

render_to_response expects a dict :

return render_to_response('ftest/display.html', {'activation_key': activation_key})

A CharField is the right way to go.