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Python

Posted by jamalbacchus
jamalbacchus
Courses Plus Student 6,664 Points

jinja2.exceptions.TemplateSyntaxError: expected token 'end of print statement', got 'current_user'

I'm having this issue:

here is my layout.html file:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html class="no-js">
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
        <title>{% block title %}TwoCans{% endblock %}</title>
        <meta name="description" content="">
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
        <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Varela+Round' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/css/normalize.min.css">
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="/static/css/main.css">

        <!--[if lt IE 9]>
            <script src="//html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
            <script>window.html5 || document.write('<script src="/static/js/vendor/html5shiv.js"><\/script>')</script>
        <![endif]-->
    </head>
    <body>

        <header>

          <div class="row">

            <div class="grid-33">

              <a href="{{ url_for('index') }}" class="icon-logo"></a>

            </div>

            <div class="grid-33">

                <!-- Say Hi -->
                <h1>Hello{{ if current_user.is_authenticated() }} {{ current_user.username }}{% endif %}!</h1>

            </div>

            <div class="grid-33">

                <!-- Log in/Log out -->
                {{ if current_user.is_authenticated() }}
                <a href="{{ url_for('logout') }}" class="icon-power" title="Log out"></a>
                {% else %}
                <a href="{{ url_for('login') }}" class="icon-power" title="Log in"></a>
                <a href="{{ url_for('register') }}" class="icon-profile" title="Register"></a>
                {% endif %}

            </div>

          </div>

        </header>

        <!-- Flash messages -->
        {% with messages = get_flashed_messages(with_categories=True) %}
            {% if messages %}
                {% for category, message in messages %}
                    <div class="notification {{ category }}">{{ message }}</div>
                {% endfor %}
            {% endif %}
        {% endwith %}

        <div class="row">

          <div class="main">

            <nav>

              <a href="{{ url_for('index') }}">All</a>

                {{ if current_user.is_authenticated() }}
                <a href="{{ url_for('stream', username=current_user.username) }}">Following</a>
                <a href="{{ url_for('post') }}" class="new">Create New Post</a>
                {% endif %}

            </nav>

            {% block content %}{% endblock %}

          </div>

        </div>

        <footer>

          <div class="row">

            <p>A Social App built with Flask<br>by <a href="http://teamtreehouse.com">Treehouse</a></p>

          </div>

        </footer>

        <script src="/static/js/vendor/disTime.min.js"></script>
        <script src="/static/js/main.js"></script>

    </body>
</html>

[MOD: ProTip wrap templates with ```html+jinja and ``` for great text formatting -cf]