Why is my django template not outputting template variable object?

Question

I am having issues getting my template to output my Postobjects, which represent a blog post. On my main index page my blog posts display just fine, and i have no problem loading the template variables. When a user clicks one of the archive dates, which represent an archive link to display posts from a certain day and month, the same index page is used but given a different set of posts to display, filtered by date.

views.py

def month(request, year, month):
    """Monthly archive."""
    posts = Post.objects.filter(created__year=year, created__month=month)

    d = dict(posts=posts, user=request.user, months=mkmonth_lst(), archive=True)
    return render(request, 'blog/index.html', d)

index.html

{% for post in posts.object_list %}
        <div class="blogpost">
            <div class="blogpost-title"><h2>{{ post.title }}<h2></div>
            <div class="blogpost-meta"><h4>{{ post.created }}</h></div>
            <div class="blogpost-body">{{ post.body|linebreaks }}</div>
            <div class="blogpost-comments"><a href="{% url 'post' post.id %}">Comments</a></div>
        </div>          
        {% endfor %}

In the above month function, after retrieving the list of Post objects and counting them i can see they are being retrieved. The problem is the index page not outputting them.

Can anyone help? Thanks

Alasdair · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-18 18:15:15Z

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In your template you should loop through posts, not posts.object_list.

answered Feb 18, 2015 at 18:15

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4 Comments

Dom Shahbazi Over a year ago

Thankyou! that is weird, i was originally using posts.object_list to output my entire collection of posts, yet it didnt work when outputting the subset of posts.

Alasdair Over a year ago

Were you using pagination in the other view, or using a class based view that does pagination?

Dom Shahbazi Over a year ago

Yes the other view uses pagination, but shares the template with months. The pagination still seems to work using just posts, is there a reason i read somewhere to use posts.object_list?

Alasdair Over a year ago

The example in the docs doesn't loop through object_list, so I think it's fine to loop through posts if it works for you.

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