Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 14:59 -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
>> # views.py
>> class Event(models.Model):
>> title = models.CharField(maxlength=255)
>> eventdate = models.DateField()
>> description = models.TextField(blank=True)
>> def __str__(self):
>> return "%(ed)s %(t)s" % {'t':self.title, 'ed':self.eventdate }
>>
>> # models.py
>> # get Events from the DB that are in the specified month.
>> object_list =
>> Event.objects.filter(eventdate__range=(dates[0][0],dates[-1][-1]))
>>
>>
>> template:
>> month_index.html
>>
>> object_list: {{ object_list }} object_list.0: {{ object_list.0 }}
>>
>>
>> brows it:
>> renders: object_list: [ ] object_list.0: 2007-07-07 up
>>
>> Why does {{object_list}} render an empty list ?
>
> The usual way to debug these problems is to work out what is going on at
> the command line.
heh - I just suggested that to someone having problems on IRC. maybe I need to
take my own advice sometime :)
> I suspect if you do that, you'll find that the
> object_list looks like [<Event: ...>]. So just dumping it into the HTML
> will lead to your browser interpreting the angle brackets as an HTML
> element, and just swallowing it up, since it's not a valid element.
>
> Often, if something isn't rendering as you expect, view the HTML source
> to check what has really been returned.
yup:
object_list: [<event: 2007-07-07="" up="">] object_list.0: 2007-07-07 up
Thanks
Carl K
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