Best way to get data into a HTML table?

2010-07-17 Thread david
Hello, Just learning about Django, and I would like to know what the best way to generate a table from my data, similar to what the "admin" app does. I attempted to dig into the source of the admin app, but I was unable to achieve much. I don't want to create a template that has for loops that l

Re: Best way to get data into a HTML table?

2010-07-17 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Saturday 17 July 2010 12:30:19 david wrote: > Just learning about Django, and I would like to know what the best > way to generate a table from my data, similar to what the "admin" app > does. I attempted to dig into the source of the admin app, but I was > unable to achieve much. > > I don't

Re: Best way to get data into a HTML table?

2010-07-17 Thread Justin Myers
Each model has a meta attribute with a list of fields on it; for a Photo model, for example, you can use Photo._meta.fields. This means you could do something (at least in the shell) like: >>> fields = Photo._meta.fields >>> photo = Photo.objects.latest() >>> for field in fields: ... print '%

Re: Best way to get data into a HTML table?

2010-07-17 Thread Carl Nobile
David, The best thing to do is use the Django docs, maybe do their tutorial. The link below should get you there: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/ ~Carl On Jul 17, 3:00 am, david wrote: > Hello, >   Just learning about Django, and I would like to know what the best > way to generate a ta

Re: Best way to get data into a HTML table?

2010-07-17 Thread david
Yes, I finished the tutorial, and it was very informative, but I could not find in the documentation anything about getting fields from a model, like Justin had suggested. It seems like his solution might work, but it seems a bit hackish (underscores mean private data right?). I wonder if thats how