How do I jQuery ajax live search for the models in Django?

I had to indent the else statement and the return statement in the views.py. And also to put statuss in the second if statement. And then it worked as I expected! Please guide me if there's any improvements to make. Thank you!

views.py:

def search_status(request):    if request.method == "GET":        search_text = request.GET['search_text']        if search_text is not None and search_text != u"":            search_text = request.GET['search_text']            statuss = Status.objects.filter(status__contains = search_text)        else:            statuss = []        return render(request, 'ajax_search.html', {'statuss':statuss})

This was the ajax script:

$(function() {    $('#search').keyup(function() {        $.ajax({            type: "GET",            url: "/status/search_status/",            data: {                'search_text' : $('#search').val(),                'csrfmiddlewaretoken' : $("input[name=csrfmiddlewaretoken]").val()            },            success: searchSuccess,            dataType: 'html'        });    });});function searchSuccess(data, textStatus, jqXHR){    $('#search-results').html(data)}

Snippet of index.html:

    <input type="text" id="search" name="search" />    <ul id="search-results">    </ul>

The included html:

{% if statuss > 0 %}    <ul class="statuss">        {% for status in statuss %}            <li>                <p>{{status}}</p>            </li>        {% endfor %}        </ul>{% else %}    <p>No status found.</p>{% endif %}