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Python Django Basics Model Administration First app view

Posted by ahmedagour
ahmedagour
Courses Plus Student 216 Points

I am trying to get the length of the Article objects list from the django models. I am not sure what I am doing wrong

I am trying to get the length of the Article objects list from the django models. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. I have put a place holder. not sure what is my problem.

articles/views.py 
from django.http import HttpResponse

# Write your views here
from .models import Article

def article_list(response):
   x=  Article.objects.len()
   return HttpResponse("There are %s articles." %x)

1 Answer

diogorferreira
diogorferreira
19,363 Points
diogorferreira
diogorferreira
19,363 Points

Hey, len() isn't an attribute of Article.objects, so you wouldn't be able to call it by using x= Article.objects.len() You need to pass all of the Article objects into the len() function like so: x= len(Article.objects.all())

This would be the completed code:

from django.http import HttpResponse

# Write your views here
from .models import Article

def article_list(response):
   x=  len(Article.objects.all())
   return HttpResponse("There are %s articles." %x)