From 0a3a9241d5de972e85c8d0596cae680b03d6909d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Micah Jerome Ellison <git@micahjero.me>
Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 13:40:59 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] allowing template interpreter to interpret common Python
 commands from template (such as len) #594

---
 jrnl/plugins/template.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/jrnl/plugins/template.py b/jrnl/plugins/template.py
index f54f481a..21fb2896 100644
--- a/jrnl/plugins/template.py
+++ b/jrnl/plugins/template.py
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ class Template(object):
         return self._expand(self.blocks[block], **vars)
 
     def _eval_context(self, vars):
-        e = asteval.Interpreter(symtable=vars, use_numpy=False, writer=None)
+        e = asteval.Interpreter(use_numpy=False, writer=None)
+        e.symtable.update(vars)
         e.symtable['__last_iteration'] = vars.get("__last_iteration", False)
         return e