Like a Formset but not...

Hi,

I am looking for a way to do something similar to a formset, but
slightly different.

I have a list of students in a class (class as a school subject, not
class in programming) with attendance record objects having a FK to
both student and class, as well as two fields with choices lists
relating to attendance (present, absent | reasons for absence)

What I want is an uneditable list of students on a page, and next to
each student a RadioSelect widget for each of the fields relating to
attendance.

I successfully created a page with formsets listing all the attendance
records for a class, and excluded the unnecessary fields - but this
means that the student FK field is rendered as a drop down list of all
students - ie, it's editable. (as a side note, each record in the
formset is not followed by a line break, making the output ugly. I
didn't expect that)

This is not the desired outcome.

I have thought about going pure views.py - creating a list of students
from the class object and cobbling together some html to add the two
attendance fields, potentially unlinked to the model itself, to render
the page via a table/divs, but am concerned about how stupidly complex
it could become for quite a simple problem, when taking into account
differing numbers of students, matching student names with the radio
buttons selected and using get_or_create()...

Is this via views.py the best method, or am I missing something obvious?

Cheers
L.

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