tutorial part 4 - Use generic views not equivalent to "the hard way" results

[alexandre.dupas@…]

In the fourth part of the tutorial, when using generic views to replace the previously presented "hard way" code, the obtain result is not equivalent.

Indeed, the hard way shows only 5 polls on the "index" page. The generic way shows all of the possible results.

It would be useful to present the exact same behavior using the both approaches.

A possible answer to that request would be to use an extra select_dict initialized with

select_dict = {
    'queryset': Poll.objects.all().order_by('-pub_date')[:5],
}

and modify the first urlpatterns with

(r'^$', 'django.views.generic.list_detail.object_list', select_dict),

As I am a beginner with django (and Python too) it might exist a better solution but at least this one works.

[Vegpuff]

Making changes in tutorial3 so as be similar in tutorial4.

[Vegpuff]

Hi,
I have added a patch, to remove the top 5 listings from the tutorial 3 so as to have consistency with tutorial 4, which lists all the poll entries.

Thanks
Vegpuff

[Tim Graham]

(In [15068]) Fixed #6550 - Changed generic view portion of the tutorial so it's equivalent to "the hard way" results. Thanks Alexandre Dupas for the suggestion.