The part you want to understand is same as ORDER BY clause in SQL. The slicing will provide only the top 5 results. By default the order_by sorts in ascending order only. But providing a "-" would make it to sort in descending order.
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019, 6:56 PM Mayur Bagul <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello coders, > > I'm here to understand line of code which im unable to understand how it > work. > i'm looking forward to get help from you. > > code is given below : > > > from django.shortcuts import render > > from .models import Question > > > def index(request): > latest_question_list = Question.objects.order_by*('-pub_date')[:5]* > context = {'latest_question_list': latest_question_list} > return render(request, 'polls/index.html', context) > > > > > - in the code above i'm looking forward to know about bold and highlighted > part how it work ? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/bbc7142c-bf46-4fb4-8e25-bbe7a2594c9f%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/bbc7142c-bf46-4fb4-8e25-bbe7a2594c9f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > On Fri, Apr 12, 2019, 6:56 PM Mayur Bagul <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello coders, > > I'm here to understand line of code which im unable to understand how it > work. > i'm looking forward to get help from you. > > code is given below : > > > from django.shortcuts import render > > from .models import Question > > > def index(request): > latest_question_list = Question.objects.order_by*('-pub_date')[:5]* > context = {'latest_question_list': latest_question_list} > return render(request, 'polls/index.html', context) > > > > > - in the code above i'm looking forward to know about bold and highlighted > part how it work ? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/bbc7142c-bf46-4fb4-8e25-bbe7a2594c9f%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/bbc7142c-bf46-4fb4-8e25-bbe7a2594c9f%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAD%3DM5eTqF%2B-AKXxG5QADXsouGPCsRNWfsM1tLahFiL7DzGKtUQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
