Hello people, I'm writing my first Django application and would like to know what is considered more efficient: getting values of models' attributes in views or directly in templates?
More precicely, say we have a Person model with name and id attributes, and these need to be shown on a page. Is it better for a view to "prepare" a context like this: # views.py # ... persons = [] for person in Person.objects.all(): persons.append({'id': person.id, 'name': person.name}) return render_to_response('some_template.html', persons) # some_template.html {% for p in persons %} Id: {{ p.id }}; Name: {{ p.name }} {% endfor %} or just pass a QuerySet in a context like this: # views.py # ... persons = Person.objects.all() return render_to_response('some_template.html', persons) and then let the template access attribute values directly? Does it make a difference in terms of performance? -- Alex Haley was adopted! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---