django - Could not parse the remainder: '-mail' from 'e-mail'

I was following the Definitive Guide To Django (v2)

Here's the traceback if you want to take a look http://dpaste.com/344698/

It gives me this error:

TemplateSyntaxError at /contact/

Could not parse the remainder: '-mail' from 'e-mail'
Template error

In template /home/jwxie/django-dev/mysite/contact/template/contact_form.html, error at line 5
and line 5 is {% block content %}

The code I had in the views.py

from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect, HttpResponse
from django.core.mail import send_mail

def contact(request):
    display_error = []
    if request.method == 'POST':
        if not request.POST.get('subject',''):
            display_error.append('Enter a subject')
        if not request.POST.get('message',''):
            display_error.append('Enter a message')
        if not request.POST.get('e-mail') and '@' not in request.POST['e-mail']:
            display_error.append('Enter a valid e-mail address')
        if not display_error:
            send_mail(
                      request.POST['subject'],
                      request.POST['message'],
                      request.POST.get('e-mail','noreply@example.com'),
                      ['siteowner@example.com'],
            )
            return HttpResponseRedirect('/contact/thanks/')
    return render_to_response('contact_form.html',{
                'subject': request.POST.get('subject',''), 
                'message': request.POST.get('message',''), 
                'e-mail': request.POST.get('e-mail',''),
                'display_error': display_error,
                })

def contact_thanks(request):
    return HttpResponse('Thanks')

This is the code in contact_form.html

{% extends "base.html" %}

{% block title %} Contact {% endblock %}
{% block content %} 
{% block content-h1 %}<p>Feel free to contact us!</p> {% endblock %}

<form action="/contact/" method="post">
<p>Subject: <input type="text" name="subject" value="{{ subject }}"></p>
<p>Your e-mail (optional): <input type="text" name="e-mail" value="{{ e-mail }}"> </p>
<p>Message: <textarea name="message" rows="10" cols="50">{{ message }}</textarea></p>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

{% if display_error %}
<ul>
{% for error in display_error %}
<li>{{error}}</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>
{% endif %}
{% endblock %}

I had contact as app, the structure looks like this: mysite/contact and it has its own template mysite/contact/template I am sure the setting.py is correct...开发者_运维知识库

what do you guys think? any help is appreciated. I am just playing around with the sample code.

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Why do you write "e-mail"? Don't the template variables have to be a Python variable names? "e_mail"?

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/templates/#variables

It says

Variable names consist of any combination of alphanumeric characters and the underscore ("_").