Question

In a django template, is it possible to have two (or more) dots after a variable? For example, say I have a list of objects that I first want to use a list-index lookup for and then once I have the object, I want to call its method for getting the absolute url, should that work?

For example:
    {% for entry in myList %}
    {{ entry.0.get_absolute_url }}
    {% endfor %}

So the 0 is asking for the first item in the list which is an object, then I want to get the absolute url. It doesn’t work when I try it but it doesn’t return an error either. Is there a better way to accomplish what I’m trying to do?

To clarify it, what’s strange is that:

This works:

{{ singleObject.get_absolute_url }}

In that case if I just try {{ singleObject }}, I get the unicode value of that object so something like: John Smith

This doesn’t work:

{% for object in objectList %}
{{ object.get_absolute_url }}
{% endfor %}

But in this case, if I put in {{ object }}, I no longer get the unicode value. I get: [<Name: John Smith>] (name being the name of the model)

Basically, the method works when it’s outside of a loop. Could there be any reason for that?

Answer 1

I got it. I had brackets around each item in my list like so:

objectList = [['John Smith'], ['Jim Jones'], ['Bill White']]

Silly me! Thanks so much for your all your input