typo:
# urls.py
url(r'^(?P<postal_code>[A-Z]{2})', views.state_home, name="state_home"),
On Saturday, December 24, 2016 at 7:35:12 AM UTC, Andrew Beales wrote:
>
> You can pass strings from URLs as arguments into your Django view
> functions.
>
> Assuming your Jurisdiction model already has a "name" field, make sure it
> also has a "postal_code" field (consider renaming the model State?)
>
> Your urls and views can be something like:
>
> # urls.py
> url(r'^(?P<state_code>[A-Z]{2})', views.state_home, name="state_home"),
>
> #views.py
> def state_home(request, postal_code):
> state = Jurisdiction.objects.get(postal_code=postal_code)
> return render(request, 'mystatetemplate.html', {'state': state})
>
>
> If you want to have several state-related pages then put the URLs in a
> dedicated "states" app or similar and 'include' it from your top level URLs
> file, eg. url(r'^states/', include('states.urls'))
>
>
>
> On Friday, December 16, 2016 at 11:19:38 PM UTC, Malik Rumi wrote:
>>
>> I already got one fast and helpful answer today, so I’m going to be
>> greedy and press my luck.
>>
>>
>> I have this website. Each state has their own home/landing page off the
>> site’s main page, and from there you will be able to get detail pages about
>> various tidbits about the state of your choice. I have implemented this
>> with a urlconf that looks for the state’s 2 digit postal name:
>>
>>
>> url(r'^(?P<twodigit>[A-Z]{2})', include('bench.urls', namespace=twodigit
>> )),
>>
>> It will come as no surprise that the views and templates associated with
>> each state are identical. However, in order to be DRY, I wanted the view to
>> take the twodigit argument from the url and call the right state’s
>> queryset. To this end, I created a dict
>> {'AK': 'Alaska',
>> 'AL': 'Alabama',
>> 'AR': 'Arkansas',
>> ...etc…}
>>
>>
>> naively thinking I would be able to do something like
>>
>>
>> for k,v in statedict:
>> if twodigit == k:
>> state = Jurisdiction.objects.get(v)
>>
>>
>> However, this does not work. I’m not sure why. Here are some of the
>> various results I’ve gotten as I tried tweaking it:
>> for k,v in statedict:
>> if 'VA' == k: # I was thinking of this as almost a default value
>> state = Jurisdiction.objects.get(v)
>>
>>
>> However, this gets an unbound local error because of the scope, and I
>> don’t know how to assign the variable so that it is accessible outside the
>> scope of the for loop.
>>
>>
>> k='NE'
>> print(v)
>> k=="US"
>> print(v)
>>
>>
>> returned
>>
>> U
>> U
>>
>>
>> Clearly, there is no ‘U’ in Nebraska, so I don’t know what happened there.
>>
>>
>> This works
>>
>>
>> print(statedict['US'])
>> (aishah) malikarumi@Tetuoan2:~/Projects/aishah/jamf35$ python statedict.py
>>
>> United States
>>
>>
>> But this does not
>>
>>
>> File "statedict.py", line 63, in <module>
>> if statedict['k']:
>> KeyError: 'k'
>>
>>
>> And this
>>
>>
>> for k, v in statedict:
>> if k:
>> print('v')
>>
>>
>> Gets me a ‘v’ for every state.
>>
>>
>> Variations on
>>
>>
>> Jurisdiction.objects.filter(statedict[’v']) and
>> Jurisdiction.objects.filter(name='v’)
>>
>>
>> also failed, and nothing I have found on the internet has helped. Ideas?
>>
>
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