On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:58 PM, nixon66 <nixon....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> tried
>
> Place.objects.values_list('county', flat=true).distinct()
>
> Now its not returning any values.
>
> On Feb 20, 7:49 pm, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 7:46 PM, nixon66 <nixon....@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm using this in a template to get a list of items in the list.
> >
> > > <ul>
> > > {% for item in list %}
> > > <li>{{ item.var }}</li>
> > > {% endfor %}
> > > </ul>
> >
> > > The problem is that I get duplicate values when I do this. So if var1
> > > appears in my database more than once, I get it as many times as it
> > > appears. I looked at using the distinct() function but could not quite
> > > figure out how to get it to work the way I want. Any suggestions?
> > > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > If you only want to print one value from the items you can do something
> > like:
> >
> > Model.objects.values_list('field', flat=True).distinct()
> >
> > that will return a list of all the values in that field, but distint of
> > course.
> >
> > Alex
> >
> > --
> > "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right
> to
> > say it." --Voltaire
> > "The people's good is the highest law."--Cicero
> >
>
It doesn't return models anymore, it just returns the individual items so
isntead of
{% for item in lst %}
{{ item.var }}
{% endfor %}
you would do
{% for item in lst %}
{{ item }}
{% endfor %}
--
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to
say it." --Voltaire
"The people's good is the highest law."--Cicero
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