Hi, thanks - that provides some perspective.
So if I omitted the .get() and .values() i will have to loop over the
queryset and then each dict, doing something like:
{% for q in info %}
{% for k, v in q.items %}
{{ k }} {{ v}}
{% empty %}
no data
{% endfor %}
{%endfor%}
?
Den onsdag den 18. september 2013 00.02.21 UTC+2 skrev Daniel Roseman:
>
> Without the get(), you get a queryset, which is an iterable of all
> elements that match the query - in effect, a list of dicts. Even though
> only one record matches, you still get a queryset containing a single dict.
> So in order to use that in your template, you'd have to add an outer loop
> iterating through each item in the queryset, while the inner loop iterates
> over the elements in each dict.
>
> Reverse relations work with a model instance. But you don't have one of
> those - you've got a dict, because you used .values(). If you dropped that
> call, you'd have an instance which you could use the backwards relation on,
> but you wouldn't be able to iterate over the fields with .items(). Note
> that most of the time you don't need to do that, so mostly you would use
> the instance rather than calling .values().
>
> --
> DR.
>
>
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