Django template is not displaying

Question

Assuming my model contains data, I have myapp/views.py:

from django.template import RequestContext
from django.shortcuts import render
from .models import History
import datetime

def live_view(request):
    context = RequestContext(request)
    plays_list = History.objects.filter(date=datetime.date(2016,04,22))
    context_list = {'plays':plays_list}
    return render(request,'live.html',context_list)

myapp/templates/live.html:

{% extends 'base.html' %}
{% block content %}
{% for key, value in context_list.items %}
    {{ value }}
{% endfor %}
{% endblock %}

myapp/urls.py:

from myapp.views import live_view

urlpatterns = [url(r'^live/$', live_view, name="live"),]

The output is a page that renders only the base.html template, with no content in the body. What's wrong with my view function or template rendering? Should I be inheriting from TemplateView?

Answer 1

You don't pass anything called context_list to the template. What you pass is the contents of that dict, which in this case is just plays.