Question

I feel there’s an obvious answer to this…

I’ve got a list of unicode values that I want to use in a django template.

The models…

# models.py
class MyModel( models.Model ):
    # ...
    def my_char_fields(self):
        return AnotherModel.objects.filter(mymodel=self.pk).values_list('cf').distinct()

class AnotherModel( models.Model ):
    # ...
    cf = models.CharField( max_length=6 )
    mymodel = ForeignKey(MyModel)

And in my template…

#MyTemplate.html
<ul>
{% for cf in mymodel.my_char_fields %}
<li>cf</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>

The result is stuff like:

• (u’BL’,)
• (u’M24′,)

but it should be:

• BL
• M24

Answer 1

You forgot to pass flat=True to .values_list().