Its day two of my new life with Django, please excuse the simplicity of my question.

I have an existing DB table(read-only access) that I have successfully displayed the contents of on a webpage using urls, views, models and all that good stuff.

The challenge I have is the table does not contain all the information I need to display. The table contains test results with the columns, sampletime, samplevalue, sampleresult. I need to display different data based on what I calculate from those columns.

My end goal is to display this info as a time series graph using flotr. For now Id be happy to just dump the data I need to a table on a web page.(So I can visualize the resulting data)

What Id like to pass to the template is,

  • jssampletime(the sampletime datetime object converted to javascript epoch ms)
  • resultvalue(rolling sum+- of samplevalue based on whether sampleresult was good or bad)

I'm fine with creating jssampletime and resultvalue using def functions. I presume I would add these functions to views.py

I guess what I need to do iterate over the a querySet in views.py and store the results in a list of dictionaries which I pass to the template. Something like this(code not tested).

views.py

# views.py
# Sudo code to assit in asking the question
from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from thing.reporter.models import Samples

def _datetime_to_js(sampletime):
    #.. date conversion epoch magic
    return jsd_result

def _rolling_sum(samplevalue,sampleresult):
    #.. summing magic
    return sum_result

def dumptable(request): # The def that is called by urls.py
    object_list = Samples.objects.all()

    list_for_template = []
    for row in object_list:
        jssampletime = _datetime_to_js(row.sampletime)
        resultvalue  = _rolling_sum(row.samplevalue,row.sampleresult) 
        list
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