On 8/16/2010 5:40 PM, Nick wrote:
> I have a view that handles elections/races. That view takes a request
> object and then based on that object sends the information to a
> specific template.
>
> For each election/race there is a subset of candidates based on the
> initial candidate_set from that race. I would like to know how to
> filter that set in a view. Here is what I have so far:
>
> Models.py:
>
> Candidate
> name = charfield
> id = integer
> race = ForeignKey(Race)
>
> Race
> name = charfield
> type = integerfield
>
> Views.py
>
> def races_output(request, type): # the type is a number that equates
> to general (3), runoff (2) or primary (1)
> if type == 2:
> r = "runoff"
> t = loader.get_template("Government/race_output_2.html")
> state_races = Race.objects.select_related().filter(type=type)
> for race in state_races:
> candidates = race.candidate_set.filter(status="runoff")
>
> if type == 3:
> r = "general"
> t = loader.get_template("Government/race_output_3.html")
> state_races = Race.objects.select_related().filter(type=type)
> for race in state_races:
> candidates = race.candidate_set.filter(status="general")
>
> c = Context({'state_races': state_races, 'candidates': candidates,
> 'r':r})
> html = t.render(c)
>
> template
>
> {% for race in state_races %}
>
> {{race.name}} - {{race.type}}
>
> {% for cand in candidates %}
> {{ cand.name }} - {{cand.id }}
> {% endfor %}
>
> {% endif %}
>
> The problem is the candidate for loop returns the exact same
> candidates for every single race. How do I get it so that the
> candidates query is specific to the race in the for loop?
>
First of all, note that you are setting candidates in a for loop. So
what you see is only the result of the last iteration of that loop - the
results of all previous iterations are being overwritten by the last one.
regards
Steve
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