Frankie Robertson wrote: > On 01/11/06, Gábor Farkas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> samuel wrote: >>>>> I'm probably just not seeing it, but how do I go about getting the >>>>> index of an item in a query set? I.E., this article is the Xth article >>>>> in this queryset of articles sorted by date. >>>> If you're looping through them in the template with the 'for' tag, >>>> each time through the loop you'll have access to a variable called >>>> 'forloop.counter' which has this information; the first time through >>>> it will be 1, the second time it will be 2, and so on. >>>> >>>> See http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates/#for for details. >>>> >>> Thanks but I guess I'm looking for something a bit different. Here's >>> exactly what I'm trying to do: I have articles that are chunked into >>> groups of 10 arbitrarily based on their date. So when a new article is >>> added the groups change. When you go to an article page, I want to >>> display the chunk that the article belongs to. So if the article is >>> 19th, display a list of articles 11-20. >>> >>> If I'm thinking through this correctly, I need to know the articles >>> location in the queryset before I get to the template and then slice >>> the queryset as necessary. How would I go about this? Just iterate >>> through and backtrack when I get there? >>> >> if the number of articles is not too high, then simply generate their >> number in the view... like: >> >> queryset = Article.objects.all() >> >> items = list(enumerate(queryset)) >> >> which is basically the same as: >> >> items = zip (range(queryset.count()), queryset) >> >> or, if you want it 1-based and not 0-based: >> >> items = zip (range(1,queryset.count()+1), queryset) >> >> the problem with these is that it fetches all the article-objects. > > Since the only way to do this is programmatically in python it might > be better to use raw sql for this instead. >
hmm.. how? gabor --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
