Re: Seeing if a variable value is within a dictionary key value within a list of dictionaries

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Tim Chase
<django.users@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> On 09/07/12 16:06, Jason Whatford wrote:
>> P.s. Tim, my data structure isn't that malleable. It's
>> essentially I query my appengine datastore, and that retrieves a
>> list of the data models, each of which can be treated as a dict.
>> The dicts are used in a few different ways in the view - only
>> this is giving me trouble though.
>
> Ah, but the transformations I suggest can be done within your view
> before passing it to your template.

it's the only sensible way.

you wouldn't put the database access code in the template, right?
similarly, there's no need to deal with less-than-optimal structures
in the template. the view code is the appropriate place to gather all
relevant data, transform it to a presentation-friendly format and pass
to the template just for rendering.


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Javier

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