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CSS Flask Basics Character Builder Looping Through Items

Frederick Pearce
Frederick Pearce
10,677 Points
Posted by Frederick Pearce
Frederick Pearce
10,677 Points

Flask task help, how do you loop through template option items?

I don't understand what the looping through items task in Flask Basics is looking for. I've tried this and I'm not sure why it doesn't work because I don't know how much input it expects from me. Anyone gotten through this and have suggestions?

Thank you!

app.py 
from flask import Flask, render_template

from options import OPTIONS

app = Flask(__name__)


@app.route('/')
def index():
    return render_template('options.html', options=OPTIONS)
templates/options.html 
<ul>
  {% for category, choices in options.items() %}
  <li>{{ category }}</li>
  {% endfor %}
</ul>

1 Answer

Hanley Chan
Hanley Chan
27,771 Points
Hanley Chan
Hanley Chan
27,771 Points

Hi,

This is how I solved this one:

<ul>
  {% for item in options %}
  <li>{{ item.name }}</li>
  {% endfor %}
</ul>
Frederick Pearce
Frederick Pearce
10,677 Points
Frederick Pearce
Frederick Pearce
10,677 Points

Thank you! Thought I was making it too complicated, just couldn't figure out how. Makes sense what I had wouldn't work. It needed to be

<ul>
  {% for category, choices in options.items() %}
  <li>{{ category.name }}</li>
  {% endfor %}
</ul>