That worked perfectly! Thanks for the help!
-Will
On 5/3/07, Mike Axiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Will,
>
> When you do {{ site }}, it should follow the rules and print
> str(ts_data[...]), which is probably not what you want.
> A more pythonic way to do what you want:
>
> {% for site in ts_data.items %}
> Site: {{ site.0 }}
> Rank: {{ site.1.rank }}
> ...
>
> {% endfor %}
>
>
> Cheers,
> Mike Axiak
>
> On May 3, 11:03 am, wj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I am new to python and to django, but finally have a project that gives
> me a
> > good excuse to learn both. It has been a struggle as I come from the
> old
> > school mod_perl web development world, from about 4-5 years ago. I'm
> > learning a lot and its been fun so far, but slow going.
> >
> > Right now, I have a small app, that queries the alexa top site
> information
> > web service, parses the xml response and returns a dictionary of results
> > with the site url as the keys. The value for each URL is another
> dictionary
> > of data, such as page rank, reach per million etc. I'm having trouble
> > drilling down through all the data using Django's template system. I
> can
> > iterate through the first set of keys fine, but have had no success
> getting
> > down to the second level of data (rank, reach etc). I'm probably
> > overlooking something very simple, but so far its stumped me.
> >
> > The dict, looks something like this:
> >
> > ts_data = {
> > u'yahoo.com.cn': {'pageviews_per_million': u'1918.5',
> > 'pageviews_per_user': u'9.0',
> > 'rank': u'30',
> > 'reach_per_million': u'14340'},
> > u'yandex.ru': {'pageviews_per_million': u'1487.9',
> > 'pageviews_per_user': u'9.8',
> > 'rank': u'39',
> > 'reach_per_million': u'10250'},
> >
> > }
> >
> > Reading the template docs, I would have expected something like the
> > following to work in the template, but it does not. Where am I going
> wrong
> > in my thinking? The only thing that appears is the url (site).
> >
> > {% for site in ts_data %}
> > Site: {{ site }}
> > Rank: {{ site.rank }}
> > ....
> >
> > I have tried several other variations, trying to list all the data. So
> far
> > nothing has worked.
> >
> > In perl, using templating systems like Template Toolkit, I would
> generally
> > arrange all my data into a big monolithic complex data structure before
> > shipping it off to the template to be processed. Is this the right
> approach
> > for python and django? Is there a more pythonic way to do this?
> >
> > Thanks for any help!
> >
> > -Will
>
>
> >
>
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