Access vales of objects via index in Django

Asked Sep 27 '16 at 15:29

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is there a way to access a value of an objectvia indexing without the use of dict()?

This is my model:

class state(models.Model):
    statecode = models.CharField(max_length=2, default='XX')
    statename = models.CharField(max_length=32, default='XXXXXXXXXXXXX')

When I start the shell and create a new object...

>>> st=state(statecode="BO",statename="BOSTON")

...my object looks like this:

 >>> st
    <state: BOSTON,  BO>

What I now want is to access the statename via an index, so instead of

>>> st.statename
'BOSTON'

I want to access it with something like this:

>>> st[1]

but currently I'm getting the follow error:

TypeError: 'state' object does not support indexing

Any ideas?

asked Sep 27 '16 at 15:29

Helyx

why would you want to do that? what is the usecase ? – karthikr Sep 27 '16 at 15:30
To compare two objects of the same type in a loop – Helyx Sep 27 '16 at 15:37
For comparison see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2513342/django-comparing-model-instances-for-equality – serg Sep 28 '16 at 04:38

Access vales of objects via index in Django

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