On Jul 22, 8:54 pm, rpupkin77 <pthompson2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > this is probably a really basic question, but i can't find the answer > anywhere. > > I need to get data from a model and use it in the view (views.py), > before I pass it to the template. However, the result I get back (when > i examine the local vars) has only the value returned by the __unicode > function, in this instance, the "title" column. > > I need the title to continue to be what is returned by unicode but i > need access to a different field in that model and pass it to a third > party api. > > essentially my code would looks like this: > > from models import Video > > def get_video_ids: > vids = Video.objects.all() > > for vids in vid > do stuff > > the vids variable contains a list like this: [Video: vid title one, > Video: vid title two] > > I essentially need the id. > > I have tried different ways of extracting, but they fail. > > Thanks.
You don't just get the unicode, you get the whole object. If you just type 'vid' into the console, of course you'll just see the unicode representation (actually it's the value of __repr__, which in turn calls __unicode__) but the whole object is there. You access other attributes like you would any other object - vid.id, vid.field1, etc. It sounds like you don't really understand objects in Python, or maybe objects at all. I recommend you read a basic beginner's guide to programming in Python - there's a list here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide/NonProgrammers I haven't read any of them (I learned from Dive Into Python, which is aimed at people who already know programming from other languages) but I've heard "How to think like a computer scientist" is good. -- DR. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
