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Python Django Basics Django Templates Templates

Posted by yen misterio
yen misterio
Courses Plus Student 90 Points

What is context? why only self.title?

Hello all, i have two questions: 1- He say all the time "becouse is context" , what is context? what it does? 2- in the model :

class Course(models.Model):
    created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    title = models.CharField(max_length=255)
    description = models.TextField()

    def __str__(self):
        return self.title

It only return self.title , only title is converted to string? what about the description? is not needed to be returned too? becouse in the template it return both title and description, i am a bit confused. Thank for the help and sorry for my bad english :D

1 Answer

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

Hi Yen

context in django is a dictionary. So if i wanted to pass name and address to my template, my context would be like below

{'name':'yourname','address':'your address'}

Then in the template, you would access the variables like so

{{name}}{{address}}

. In terms of the class returning the title

  # that only happens when the print function is called on the class.
  def __str__(self):
    return self.title

To access the title or description in the template, it would be the same as above, see below

{{course.title}} {{course.description}}

hope this makes sense .

Anthony Albertorio
Anthony Albertorio
22,624 Points

Great description. Cleared it right up for me!