view rendering weekdays

Using Django
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Hi,
I am new user of Django.
I have a model.py.

class Clase(models.Model):
    DAYS_OF_THE_WEEK={
        "7": "MON",
        "1": "TUE",
        "2": "WED",
        "3": "THU",
        "4": "FRI",
        "5": "SAT",
        "6": "SUN",
    }
    name=models.CharField(max_length=30)  
    day=models.CharField(max_length = 20,choices = DAYS_OF_THE_WEEK,default = 'MON')

and a Class view to list the Class objects:

class list_clases(LoginRequiredMixin,ListView):
    model=Clase
    fields=['name','day']
    template_name='website/listar_clases.html'
    success_url=reverse_lazy('clase')

and the template:

<table class = "table table-bordered">
    <thead>
            <tr>
                    <th id="clase">CLASE</th>
                    <th id="clase">DIA DE CLASE</th>
                    <th id="opciones">Acciones</th>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                {% for clase in object_list %}
                    <td> {{ clase.name }} </td>
                    <td> {{ clase.day}} </td>
                    <td> <a class="btn btn-primary" href="{% url 'reservar' clase.id %}">BOOK</a> </td>
                </tr>
                {% endfor %}  
    </thead

The problem is that I would like to show the weekday as ‘Monday’, ‘Tuesday’, etc… but the filter
|date:‘l’ for {{clase.day|date:‘l’ }} is not working. The Model, view and template work fine showing the weekday numbers if I remove the filter. I wonder if the problem could be that clase.day is considered as string, and tried the conversion to integer using {{clase.day|to_int}} but it gives an error (Invalid filter: ‘to_int’)

Any suggestion to show the weekdays in the template?
Thank you

2

Side note: When posting code consisting of multiple lines, you need to surround that code by lines of three backtick characters. Those lines of ``` must be lines by themselves and not part of the lines containing code. (I took the liberty of fixing your post for you.)

3

In the template you could use the magic Model.get_FOO_display() method (in the docs. So in your case:

    <td> {{ clase.get_day_display }} </td>

However, that will only render the text label of the choice which for your field is “MON”, “TUE”, etc. You could change those labels in the model to “Monday” etc.

4

Excellent, this is what I was looking for. I applied it on my template after I changed the form.
Thank you!