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Python Django Basics Model Administration First app view

Posted by shreyas bukkawar
shreyas bukkawar
214 Points

Didn't get the right output

creating a view named article_list that selects all Article instances and returns an HttpResponse like "There are 5 articles."

articles/views.py 
from django.http import HttpResponse

# Write your views here
from .models import Article

def article_list(request):
    string = "There are " + len(Article.objects.all()) + " articles."
    return HttpResponse(string)

1 Answer

Ryan S
Ryan S
27,276 Points
Ryan S
Ryan S
27,276 Points

Hi Shreyas,

The problem is that HttpResponse() must take a string as an argument but len() returns an integer. So you are feeding it a string mixed with an integer. If you convert it to a string then it should work.

    string = "There are " + str(len(Article.objects.all())) + " articles."