On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Tim <timster...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That's exactly how you would do it: {{ item.cost }}
> No extra code is required in your model.
>
> This of course requires that you have an item instance in your view
> and pass it to the template.
>
> For example...
>
> def view_example(request):
> item = Item.objects.get(pk=1)
> render_to_response('template.html', {'item':item})
>
>
> On Feb 17, 1:37 pm, wotaskd <wota...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > I have a model where one of the fields shouldn't be persistent.
> > Instead, I'd like to add a method that always returns a calculation in
> > the form of an integer value. Ex:
> >
> > http://dpaste.com/hold/121785/
> >
> > The question is... can I make the method - in the example, cost() -
> > available to a web template (ex: by calling something like
> > {{ item.cost }} )?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > wotaskd
> >
>
What Tim said is completely correct, just as a side note, you can't do this
with any methods that actually require arguments though(other than self of
course :P ).
Alex
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