> Well, I am not sure this is a good suggestion but the way to get
> around
> any template code would be to do it in the query.
> Have you tried something like this:
>
> your_list = [] # i don't know how to initialise an empty query set
> authors = Author.objects.order_by('name')
> for author in authors:
> books = Book.objects.filter(author__name__exact=author.name)
> your_list.append(author)
> for book in books:
> your_list.append(book)
Thank you nausikaa for you suggestion. I started the same approach
with list.append() but that was a bit messy indeed
>
> But this is not so good I think.
>
> nausikaa
>
>
>
> On Sep 24, 9:49 am, dimitri pater - serpia <dimitri.pa...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> say, I have two related models:
>>
>> class Author(models.Model):
>> name = models.CharField()
>>
>> class Book(models.Model):
>> author = models.ForeignKey(Author)
>> titel = models.CharField()
>> isbn = models.CharField()
>>
>> and I want to group them and display them in a template like this:
>>
>> Stephen King:
>> ==========
>> Green Mile 7878787
>> Four past midnight 909090
>> etc..
>>
>> Daphne du Maurier:
>> ==========
>> Rebecca 565656
>> Don't look now 232323
>> etc....
>>
>> what is the best way to this (in the view, maybe using 'grop_by'),
>> without having to write too much template code?
>> Your suggestions are welcome, thank!
>>
>> dimitri
> >
>
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