In the view the syntax is world = Species.objects.all().select_related() see the brackets after the all method.
only when you use the code in the template you don't put brackets for a method/function. On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 01:06 -0700, Eva Hamilton wrote: > Oops, sorry, that's a typo in the post - but not present in the actual > code. > > It should have read... > > world = Species.objects.all.select_related() > family_list = [o.genus.family for o in world] > > Or is there another missing ")" that I'm not seeing? > > Thank you! > > > On Oct 9, 5:18 pm, "Bogdan I. Bursuc" <bogdanbursu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > You forgot a ")" sign. That's why syntax error. > > > > On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 23:48 -0700, Eva Hamilton wrote: > > > >From the django documentation > > > >(here:http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/models/select_related/) > > > I obtained this bit of code for performing a select_related on a list > > > of objects and producing a list of related objects... > > > > > >>> world = Species.objects.all().select_related() > > > >>> [o.genus.family for o in world] > > > [<Family: Drosophilidae>, <Family: Hominidae>, <Family: Fabaceae>, > > > <Family: Amanitacae>] > > > > > It works perfectly in the python shell, but I'm wondering what the > > > correct syntax would be to achieve the same result in a django view? > > > ie. define a variable that will produce the list of related objects > > > and can then be used in a template. > > > > > I've tried: > > > > > world = Species.objects.all(select_related() > > > family_list = [o.genus.family for o in world] > > > > > but get a "syntax error" message. > > > > > Can anyone help? Thanks! > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
