Question

So I have a simple template problem. In a URL view I pass one var, called ‘style’, and I pass a dictionary with a bunch of model info. To get right too it:

{{ style }}
{% for recipe in recipes %}
    {{ recipe.recipe_style }}
    {% if recipe.recipe_style == style %}
        {{ recipe.recipe_style }}
    {% endif %}
{% endfor %}

So what this block should return is:

Dinner Dinner Dinner Dinner Dinner

because there are only two entries in the recipe model, both with ‘Dinner’ set as the recipe_style (charfields), and the style is passed through the view and urlconf (“r’^(?P[-A-Za-z0-9_]+)/” which grabs ‘Dinner’ from a url ‘http://…/Dinner/’). What it returns is:

Dinner Dinner Dinner

This is because the if statement comes back false. But why? “Dinner” == “Dinner”! My only guess is a format issues? I tried style=str(style) before passing it in the view, but still didn’t work.

EDIT: here’s what shows in the shell:

>>> RecipeStyle.objects.all()
[<RecipeStyle: Dinner>, <RecipeStyle: Lunch>, <RecipeStyle: American>, <RecipeStyle: Italian>, <RecipeStyle: French>]
>>> recipe = Recipe.objects.get(pk=1)
>>> recipe.recipe_style
<RecipeStyle: Dinner>

and it works in the console:

>>> if recipe.recipe_style == RecipeStyle.objects.get(pk=1):
...     print "poop"
... 
poop

So why not in the template?

Answer 1

I was doing it wrong. The if statement I had was filtering a queryset passed to the template; dumb, right? I fixed it by filtering the recipe model in the view and then passing the filtered queryset.