On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Johnny McClung <jdmccl...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I have gotten down to the part where the tutorial reads "Load the page by
> pointing your browser at “/polls/”, and you should see a bulleted-list
> containing the “What’s up” question from Tutorial 2. The link points to the
> question’s detail page."
>
> I do not see a bulleted-list. All I see is "No polls are available."
>
> This makes me think that I have an error in the if statement in the
> template index.html. However, I can not find the error or why it is not
> showing me the list. Any help would be appreciated.
>
The {% if %} statement is fine.
> mysite>>polls>>templates>>polls>>index.html
>
> {% if latest_question_list %}
> <ul>
> {% for quesion in latest_question_list %}
>
You do have a typo in your {% for %} loop, however.
> def index(request):
> latest_question_list = Question.objects.order_by('-pub_date')[:5]
> template = loader.get_template('polls/index.html')
> context = {'latest_quesion_list': latest_question_list,}
> return HttpResponse(template.render(context, request))
>
>
This is where your issue is. Your template context dictionary also has the
same typo as your {% for %} loop, so the {% if %} statement is returning
False because the variable it is checking (which is spelled correctly)
doesn't exist.
-James
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