On Dec 18, 7:12 am, Continuation <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a field with the null=True option
>
> How do I test for the Null value in template?
>
> I did something like:
>
> {% ifequal field Null %}
> do something
> {% else %}
> do something else
>
> I tested it and it worked. But I want to make sure this is the proper
> way to handle Null value in Django. The doc is a bit unclear.
>
> Also does it matter if I type out null as "Null", "null", or "NULL" in
> the above example?
The Python equivalent of null is None - if you explicitly need to
check for that value, that's how you should spell it.
However normally the better way of doing it is just
{% if field %}
etc, since None is boolean false, as is False, 0 and [].
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