django-mptt: Using get_root() on TreeQuerySet element inside for loop and output stored in list does not persist outside of for loop

[philgyford]

Looking only at your first example, in the shell…

In the loop you’re calling item.get_root(). This “returns the root node”, so that is what is being output to the console.

Then you append item to the list.

So the list is a list of the original items. But it sounds like you want it to be a list of root nodes?

So shouldn’t you be appending item.get_root() to the list instead?