Question

I was reading some code in the django tutorial and i found this

<ul>
{% for athlete in athlete_list %}
   <li>{{ athlete.name }}</li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>

what is athlete?, where can I find mor information about how to use this?

I searched for list, but they seem to have restricted functions such as append and index.

Answer 1

athlete_list is a context variable that has been passed to the template.

athlete is an element of athlete_list. In this case, it looks like athlete is a model object with a name property. In which case, athlete_list is probably an athlete query set, or list of objects.

Have a look at the Django template tag reference for more information.