RE: Nested for loops in templates

2018-06-15 Thread Matthew Pava
TEMPLATE_STRING_IF_INVALID) or settings.TEMPLATE_STRING_IF_INVALID From: django-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:django-users@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mikkel Kromann Sent: Friday, June 15, 2018 6:36 AM To: Django users Subject: Re: Nested for loops in templates Thanks Matthew. The field_list is a lis

Re: Nested for loops in templates

2018-06-15 Thread Mikkel Kromann
Thanks Matthew. The field_list is a list strings containnig the field names hardcoded in Models.py by the programmer. I.e. the field names that shoud appear in the Class Based Views. So, perhaps this answers my question to Vijay - that the row in the iteration is in fact the Model object. And t

Re: Nested for loops in templates

2018-06-15 Thread Mikkel Kromann
Thank you Vijay. That link seems to be a feasible path for me to take (reproduced below). Perhaps you or others can help me with an additional question (I am a bit new to both Python and Django), that I'm struggling with: Which type of data structure is Django iterating over in the templates (i

RE: Nested for loops in templates

2018-06-13 Thread Matthew Pava
field is a string – a name of a field, field is not actually an attribute of row. You’ll need a template tag to get the attribute named field from row. This StackOverflow question may help you: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/844746/performing-a-getattr-style-lookup-in-a-django-template?utm_m

Re: Nested for loops in templates

2018-06-13 Thread Vijay Khemlani
As far as I know you can't do it directly in the templating system Yo could write a template tag as described here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2894365/use-variable-as-dictionary-key-in-django-template/10700142#10700142 or use a different data structure, for example each row as a list of