Re: Is there a way to access a field's verbose_name from a object_list generic view template?

On Saturday 06 February 2010 12:23:16 Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> On do, 2010-02-04 at 11:01 -0800, Eric Chamberlain wrote:
> > I'm using the object_list generic view and it seems there should be a
> > way to pull the field verbose_name from the model, without having to
> > hard code the name in the template.
>
> model_class_or_instance._meta.verbose_name
> unicode(model_class_or_instance._meta.verbose_name_plural)
>
You can't access attributes that start with an underscore from templates. A
custom tag or filter should do it.

Alternatively computed value of verbose_name can be passed to the view via
extra_context. Check the docs.

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