Need variable assignment in template

[yashh]

I have a huge json string in my template and I am using

{{ json_decode(json_string)["name"] }}

similarly to render other attributes I am calling json_decode everytime. Is there a way I can assign the output of the json_decode operation to a variable?

{% data_dict = json_decode(json_string) %}

I get ParseError: unknown operator: 'data_dict'.
Any work arounds?

[Bessonov]

Try:

{% set data_dict = json_decode(json_string) %}

[yashh]

awesome. just started reading template.py, there quite many tags template supports. Cool!