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Python Django Basics Model Administration First app view

Posted by Bruce Whealton
Bruce Whealton
3,619 Points

What am I doing wrong in this Django Basics task - creating a view to display the count of articles?

I wrote the following code: from django.http import HttpResponse

Write your views here

from .models import Article

def article_list(): articles = Article.objects.all() count = str(len(articles)) output = "There are %s articles".format(count) return HttpResponse(output)

The task asks me to to create a view that will show "There are count articles." Maybe I need a %d and not to convert the count, which is a number, to a string. This is in the Django Basics course. Bruce

articles/views.py 
from django.http import HttpResponse

# Write your views here
from .models import Article

def article_list():
  articles = Article.objects.all()
  count = str(len(articles))
  output = "There are %s articles".format(count)
  return HttpResponse(output)

2 Answers

Pedro Pólvora
Pedro Pólvora
14,086 Points
Pedro Pólvora
Pedro Pólvora
14,086 Points

I believe the string should be like this, (note that we're using python 3)

output = "There are {} articles".format(count)

And also, your view should take the request as an argument 

def article_list(request):
.....
Daniel Jeffery
PLUS
Daniel Jeffery
Courses Plus Student 26,985 Points
Daniel Jeffery
Daniel Jeffery
Courses Plus Student 26,985 Points

Got it to work by adding request to the view and changing %s to {} as Pedro said

Amy Plant
Amy Plant
5,591 Points
Amy Plant
Amy Plant
5,591 Points

I got it to work doing that too when I test it, but the course keeps telling me: Bummer! Didn't get the right output.

from django.http import HttpResponse

from.models import Article

# Write your views here
def article_list(request):
    articles = Articles.objects.all()
    number_of_articles = str(len(articles))
    output = "There are {} articles.".format(number_of_articles)
    return HttpResponse(output)