Tutorial part 4 help: the raidio buttons to make a choice on the polls question won't show.

[Othniel Ayinzat]

Hi guys,

 I have been following the django tutorials up to part 4 on the polls application. My details template only displays the vote submit button but the radio buttons for making choices won't show. I have been battling with this for some hours now and i need help or some pointers. Thanks. Below are the code snippets for the polls app.

polls/templates/polls/detail.html

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<h1>{{ question.question_text }}</h1>

{% if error_message %}<p><strong>{{ error_message }}</strong></p>{% endif %}

<form action="{% url 'polls:vote' question.id %}" method="post">

{% csrf_token %}

{% for choice in question.choice_set.all %}

<input type="radio" name="choice" id="choice{{ forloop.counter }}" value="{{ choice.id }}" />

<label for="choice{{ forloop.counter }}">{{ choice.choice_text }}</label><br />

{% endfor %}

<input type="submit" value="Vote" />

</form>

polls/templates/polls/index.html

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{% if latest_question_list %}

<ul>

{% for question in latest_question_list %}

<li><a href="{% url 'polls:detail' question.id %}">{{ question.question_text }}</a></li>

{% endfor %}

</ul>

{% else %}

<p>No polls are available.</p>

{% endif %}

[Othniel Ayinzat]

I think the problem is from around:

 {% for choice in question.choice_set.all %}

<input type="radio" name="choice" id="choice{{ forloop.counter }}" value="{{ choice.id }}" />

<label for="choice{{ forloop.counter }}">{{ choice.choice_text }}</label><br />

{% endfor %}

This is because i tested outside the loop and i got the radio button,  but the whole idea was to loop through the questions and assign a button for the choices.

[ludovic coues]

I would try to add that right before the loop:

{{ question|pprint }}
{{ question.choice_set.all|pprint }}

The result should be something like that

<class 'app.Question'>
<choices list([choice a, choice b])>

the pprint filter is for debugging, you should remove once your issue
is fixed. It will make obvious some error like question.choice_set.all
not returning the kind of data you expect.

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[Brady Lee]

Same issue here, no radio buttons show up.

ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS

python 3.5.2

django 1.10.5

I've tried  {{ question|pprint }} and {{ question.choice_set.all|pprint }} for debugging, got:

<Question: What's up?> <QuerySet []>

Now trying to figure out where the problem is. 

[ludovic coues]

Have you added some choices to the "What's up?" question ?

What you see is that question.choice_set.all is empty.
The following snippet will give you some output:

{% for choice in question.choice_set.all %}
<input type="radio" name="choice" id="choice{{ forloop.counter }}"
value="{{ choice.id }}" />
<label for="choice{{ forloop.counter }}">{{ choice.choice_text
}}</label><br />

{% empty %}
<p>Sorry, no available choices.</p>
{% endfor %}

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[Brady Lee]

The "polls_choice" table in database file db.sqlite3 has no records, so no radio buttons show up.

I manually added 2 records to the "polls_choice" table, then I have the radio buttons showed up.