Iterate over model instance field names and values in template

model._meta.get_all_field_names() will give you all the model's field names, then you can use model._meta.get_field() to work your way to the verbose name, and getattr(model_instance, 'field_name') to get the value from the model.

NOTE: model._meta.get_all_field_names() is deprecated in django 1.9. Instead use model._meta.get_fields() to get the model's fields and field.name to get each field name.

You can use Django's to-python queryset serializer.

Just put the following code in your view:

from django.core import serializersdata = serializers.serialize( "python", SomeModel.objects.all() )

And then in the template:

{% for instance in data %}    {% for field, value in instance.fields.items %}        {{ field }}: {{ value }}    {% endfor %}{% endfor %}

Its great advantage is the fact that it handles relation fields.

For the subset of fields try:

data = serializers.serialize('python', SomeModel.objects.all(), fields=('name','size'))

Finally found a good solution to this on the dev mailing list:

In the view add:

from django.forms.models import model_to_dictdef show(request, object_id):    object = FooForm(data=model_to_dict(Foo.objects.get(pk=object_id)))    return render_to_response('foo/foo_detail.html', {'object': object})

in the template add:

{% for field in object %}    <li><b>{{ field.label }}:</b> {{ field.data }}</li>{% endfor %}