Question

I am familiar with calling the currently logged in user, using: requestcontext, user, and get_profile.
What if I am creating another page, not of the currently logged in user?

my url is:

r'^/profile/(\w+)/$' 

and view is as follows:

from django.contrib.auth.models import User

def profile(request, username):
    person = User.objects.filter(username=username)
    return render_to_response('profile.html', {"person":person}, 
         context_instance=RequestContext(request))

In my template, I can enter {{user.username}} or {{user.get_profile.name}} and get values, but not {{person.username}} or {{person.get_profile.name}}. What is a way that I can retrieve the information I need? Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

.filter returns a list, even if it just has one match. Since you’re looking for exactly one username, use .get(username=username), and your person will end up with just the one object.