The line of my previous post
" print i.name" should read "print i.firstname
This is just a correction to my post, not to my problem! Thanks
MerMer
Merric Mercer wrote:
> I'm getting, what seems to me, an inconsistency.
> Here's a simplified example:
>
>
> >>qs=Mymodel.objects.all()
> >>for i in qs:
> setattr(i,"firstname","merric")
>
> This works on:-
>
> >>qs[0].firstname
> >>merric
>
> It also works in the template:-
>
> {% for i in qs %} {{ i.firstname }} {% endfor %}
>
> so I don't understand why this doesn't seem to work after I've set the
> new attribute:-
>
> >> for i in qs:
> print i.name
> >> Attribute Error 'QuerySet' object has no attribute 'merric'.
>
> Am I doing something fundamentally wrong? If not this seems rather
> inconsistent. If I can iterate through an altered QuerySet in my
> template why can't I do
> so in the code?
>
> My problem is this:-
>
> I have a query set that I need to filter, but only after I've done a
> bunch of dynamic calculations on other related data. Is there an easy
> way to alter the query set dynamically and effectively?
>
> Thanks
>
> MerMer
>
> >
>
>
>
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