On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:00 AM, mmenchu <mmen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to write to one of my templates the display name for
> item.category. Item is an object with an IntegerField named
> 'category' and a set of specified choices. I call render_to_response
> and call get_category_display() but I keep getting
> "Could not parse the remainder: '()'". What's the 'right' way of
> doing this in the template? Do I need to pre-render the string
> before passing it to render_to_response?
>
> {% for item in lstOfItems%}
> {{ item.name }} {{ item.get_category.display()}}
> {%endfor%}
First, change get_category.display to get_category_display
it is an obvious typo.
Them drop the (). This is documented:
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/topics/templates/#templates
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/topics/templates/#variables
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