Question

This is my model class

#!/usr/bin/python

from django.db import models

class olWS(models.Model):
    country=models.CharField(max_length=4)
    comment=models.TextField()

And this is how i’m trying to put in values recursively in the model fields while iterating over xml data from django shell.

>>> from ol.models import olWS
>>> import xml.etree.cElementTree as ET
>>> tree=ET.ElementTree(file='data1')
>>> ws=olWS()
>>> for el in tree.iter():
...     if el.tag=='cusotm_var4':
...         ws.country=el.text
...     if el.tag=='comments':
...         ws.comment=el.text
...
>>> ws.save()
>>> ws.id
1
>>> ws.country
'US'
>>> ws.comment
'where are my cds i ordered'

and what i’m getting is just a single row been fed in the model.
How can I get all the values being iterated over in the xml data, in modelfields.

Answer 1

You need to create and save your instances within the loop; you are only assigning values in the loop in your example.

for el in tree.iter():
    ws = olWS()
    ws.country = el.text if el.tag == 'custom_var4' else ''
    ws.comment = el.text if el.tag == 'comments' else ''
    ws.save()