Sad part is I can do it in python well, I just can't seem to grasp the way 
django works i keep reading the damn documentation but I cant see any good 
examples relating to what I have to do.

On Friday, June 20, 2014 5:10:10 AM UTC-6, Tom Evans wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:16 AM, G Z <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > my django server dies whenever i login and access the following 
> function: 
> > 
> > what is a better way to do what im doing. I need to loop through all of 
> the 
> > vm_groups by customer id, and then loop through all of the vms and 
> associate 
> > them with each other. 
> > The code below is what i have but its not working. django just kills its 
> > self. 
> > 
> > def portal(request): 
> > 
> >     query_results = Customer.objects.all() 
> > 
> >     for result in query_results: 
> >        customer_id = Customer.objects.values('customer_id') 
> > 
> >        vm_group = Vm_group.objects.filter(customer=customer_id) 
> > 
> >        for result in vm_group: 
> >           vm_group_ids = Vm_group.objects.values('vm_group_id') 
> > 
> >           for result in vm_group_ids: 
> >              vms = Vm.objects.filter(vm_group_id=vm_group_ids) 
> > 
> > 
> >     context = Context({'customer': query_results, 'vm_group': vm_group, 
> > 'vms': vms, 
> >                                                 }) 
> > 
> >     return render(request, 'portal.html', context) 
> > 
>
> What is this code supposed to do? 
>
> You generate a "vm_group" for each customer, but then discard all but 
> the last one generated, which you put in your context. 
>
> Similarly, you generate a "vms" object for each vm group id in each vm 
> group in each customer, but then discard all but the last one. 
>
> Running queries inside loops inside loops inside loops is an extremely 
> inefficient way of querying the database, and this is ultimately why 
> it kills itself - it takes too long. 
>
> The purpose of the view is to efficiently generate data that you then 
> output in your template, but your view generates data inefficiently 
> that you discard. What do you want output in your template? 
>
> Cheers 
>
> Tom 
>
> PS: 
>
> I don't mean to discourage you, but looking back at your past posts, 
> they all seem to be variants of this exact question for the past 
> several months. 
>
> It might be worth doing some more straightforward exercises in python 
> so that you understand basic concepts like looping and variable 
> scoping, and when you get help on the mailing list, make sure you 
> understand why you are changing what you have been told to change - 
> ask questions of the people helping you if you don't know - otherwise 
> you are learning how to be a cargo cult programmer. 
>

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