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Python Django Basics Django Templates List template

Posted by Øystein Efterdal
Øystein Efterdal
3,405 Points

Use a {% for %} loop to print the headline attribute for each item in the articles queryset.

I can't figure out of the answer to this Challenge Task.

articles/templates/articles/article_list.html 
{% for headline in articles %}

1 Answer

Andreas cormack
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Andreas cormack
Python Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,011 Points

Hi Oystein

For this challenge you want to loop through the articles queryset and print out the attribute headline for each article.

see below

{% for article in articles %}
  {{article.headline}}
{% endfor %}
Øystein Efterdal
Øystein Efterdal
3,405 Points

Thank you!

Dillon Reyna
Dillon Reyna
9,531 Points
Dillon Reyna
Dillon Reyna
9,531 Points

Why do we do 

    {{article.headline}}

instead of

{% for article in articles %}
<h2>article.headline</h2>
{% endfor %}

I get the feeling that the second example would literally print "article.headline" once for every headline in articles.

However, I don't quite understand how the first answer works.