I am new in Django and having a hard time figuring out how to print what an object have inside. I mean type and value of the variable with its members inside. Just like Lara
You are looking for __dict__
property or dir()
print(object.__dict__)
Use pprint for beautified output
from pprint import pprint
pprint(dir(object))
Raise an exception. Assuming you've got debug on you'll see the exception message. It's crude but it's helped me in the past.
Just:
raise Exception("I want to know the value of this: " + myvariable_as_a_string)
Other answers & commenters ignored the crucial "and die" part of the dd() function, which prevents things like subsequent redirects.
Actually Django does not provide this specialized function. So in order to get rid of this problem, I made a custom dd()
type function and use this in all Django projects. Perhaps it can help someone.
Let's assume, we have a library folder named app_libs
and in that folder we have a library file named dump.py
. Like app_libs > dump.py:
from django.core import serializers
from collections.abc import Iterable
from django.db.models.query import QuerySet
from django.core.exceptions import ObjectDoesNotExist
def dd(request, data=''):
try:
scheme = request.scheme
server_name = request.META['SERVER_NAME']
server_port = request.META['SERVER_PORT']
remote_addr = request.META['REMOTE_ADDR']
user_agent = request.META['HTTP_USER_AGENT']
path = request.path
method = request.method
session = request.session
cookies = request.COOKIES
get_data = {}
for key, value in request.GET.lists():
get_data[key] = value
post_data = {}
for key, value in request.POST.lists():
post_data[key] = value
files = {}
for key, value in request.FILES.lists():
files['name'] = request.FILES[key].name
files['content_type'] = request.FILES[key].content_type
files['size'] = request.FILES[key].size
dump_data = ''
query_data = ''
executed_query = ''
if data:
if isinstance(data, Iterable):
if isinstance(data, QuerySet):
executed_query = data.query
query_data = serializers.serialize('json', data)
else:
dump_data = dict(data)
else:
query_data = serializers.serialize('json', [data])
msg = f'''
<html>
<span style="color: red;"><b>Scheme</b></span> : <span style="color: blue;">{scheme}</span><br>
<span style="color: red;"><b>Server Name</b></span> : <span style="color: blue;">{server_name}</span><br>
<span style="color: red;"><b>Server Port</b></span> : <span style="color: blue;">{server_port}</span><br>
<span style="color: red;"><b>Remote Address</b></span>: <span style="color: blue;">{remote_addr}</span><br>
<span style="color: red;"><b>User Agent</b></span> : <span style="color: blue;">{user_agent}</span><br>
<span style="color: red;"><b>Path</b></span> : <span style="color: blue;">{path}</span><br>
<span style="color: red;"><b>Method</b></span> : <span style="color: blue;">{method}</span><br>
<span style="color: red;"><b>Session</b></span> : <span style="color: blue;">{session}</span><br>
<span style="color: red;"><b>Cookies</b></span> : <span style="color: blue;">{cookies}</span><br>
<span style="color: red;"><b>Get Data</b></span> : <span style="color: blue;">{get_data}</span><br>
<span style="color: red;"><b>Post Data</b></span> : <span style="color: blue;">{post_data}</span><br>
<span style="color: red;"><b>Files</b></span> : <span style="color: blue;">{files}</span><br>
<span style="color: red;"><b>Executed Query</b></span>: <span style="color: blue;"><br>{executed_query}</span><br>
<span style="color: red;"><b>Query Data</b></span> : <span style="color: blue;"><br>{query_data}</span><br>
<span style="color: red;"><b>Dump Data</b></span> : <span style="color: blue;"><br>{dump_data}</span><br>
</html>
'''
return msg
except ObjectDoesNotExist:
return False
when you need to use this function, just call it like this in any views.py:
from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.shortcuts import render
from django.views import View
from app_libs.dump import dd
from .models import Products
class ProductView(View):
def get(self, request):
data = {}
data['page_title'] = 'products'
data['products'] = Products.objects.get_all_product()
template = 'products/collections.html'
dump_data = dd(request, data['products'])
return HttpResponse(dump_data)
# return render(request, template, data)
that's it.