Need Help With View Query Comparing Dates

Using Django
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Not quite - I’m getting the impression from this that you’re looking at this from the wrong angle.

Briefly:

  • Browser issues HTTP GET on a url
  • Django receives the request, and looks for a matching url.
  • When it finds the URL, it then calls the view for that url.
  • The view does whatever processing needs to be done and returns a result.
    • The returned result might be a web page
      • It could also be a fragment of a page to be inserted into the current page as a result of an AJAX call
      • It could be JSON data returned to an AJAX call
      • It could be an HTTP error status such as a 404 or 500

The key point here is to not look at the templates as a “page”. (It might be one, but it may not.) It’s what the view returns as the result of a request.

The purpose of the built-in render function is to convert a template into HTML, to be returned by the view.

Another key point then is that you’re not limited to only rendering one template per page. As long as what you’re returning is a proper response for the request, you can render multiple templates in your view.

Ken