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garmars
garmars

Reputation: 129

How to Iterate Over a List in Python

I have a simple for loop to iterate over a list of various dates. For each item in the list, I exclude the timezone by taking only the first 10 characters. However, when I pass the object to my template only the first value in the list is being returned for all values.

views.py

for opportunity in opportunities:
    temp = opportunity['expectedCloseDate']
    time = temp[:10]

context { 'time': time }
return render(request, 'website', context)

template.html

<div class="control is-inline-flex">
    <input class="input" name="close_date" id="close_date" type="date" value="{{ time }}" disabled>
</div>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 220

Answers (2)

willeM_ Van Onsem
willeM_ Van Onsem

Reputation: 476813

You can construct a list of times:

times = [opportunity['expectedCloseDate'][:10] for opportunity in opportunities]
return render(request, 'website', {'times': times})

and then iterate over this in your template:

<div class="control is-inline-flex">
    {% for time in times %}
        <input class="input" name="close_date" id="close_date" type="date" value="{{ time }}" disabled>
    {% endfor %}
</div>

That being said, it looks like you are building a form manually. It is usually better to use Django's Form object [Django-doc] here.

If you want to loop concurrently over two lists, you can make use of zip, like:

times = [opportunity['expectedCloseDate'][:10] for opportunity in opportunities]
opps_times = zip(opportunities, times)
return render(request, 'website', {'opps_times': opps_times})

and render this with:

{% for opportunity, time in opps_times %}
    <!-- ... -->
{% endfor %}

Upvotes: 2

mark
mark

Reputation: 91

You are always overwriting time in each iteration. Try something like

time = []
for opportunity in opportunities:
    temp = opportunity['expectedCloseDate']
    time.append(temp[:10])

context = { 'time': time }
return render(request, 'website', context)

Upvotes: 1

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