Hani wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm a newbie and am having a an issue accessing the attribute for a
> variable. I did a search (django documentation and here) and found
> nothing. If this has been covered before, please direct me to the
> correct thread.
>
> I currently pass a context to my template and it works fine. For
> example, I can do:
>
> {% for s in objectlist %}
> User name is: {{s.user_name}}
> {% endfor %}
>
> But, I can't do this:
> User name is: {{ objectlist.0.user_name }}
>
> What I'm trying to do is access the first user in the list and then
> access the user_name attribute for that user. BTW, {{objectlist.0}}
> does work.
>
> My current solution is to return the first user (first item in the
> objectlist) as part of the context like this:
>
> return render_to_response('app/apptemplate.html",{'objectlist'}:
> objectlist, 'firstobject':objectlist[0]})
>
> However, this seems counter-intuitive. I should be able to just
> explicitly grab the first item and access it's attributes in the
> template.
>
> Is there a better way? How do I do this?
> Thanks,
> Hani
I was gonna say the template . notation does not support numerical
indexes, but the docs say it does.
http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates/#variables I did a
short simple test and it does in fact. This is on newforms admin
branch. Probably works with trunk as well.
Is this new? I really thought numerical indexing did not work.
Are you not using trunk? If not you should be, and if so there must be
something else going on (username instead of user_name?) as this
> User name is: {{ objectlist.0.user_name }}
should work as you expect.
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