Google Appengine: objects passed to a template changes their addresses in memory

Question

I query an array of objects from DB, then compare addresses of the objects in Model and in View. They differs! Why? I want access the same objects as from template as from business logics code.

I wouldn't ask for it but it really bother me because function calls are disallowed in Django-styled templates and I even can't assign custom properties to DB-objects within the business logics code.

In request handler:

from google.appengine.ext.webapp import template

cats = db.GqlQuery("SELECT * FROM Cats")
for cat in cats:
  self.response.out.write("<li>%s</li>" % (a))

In template:

{% for a in articles %}
  {{a}},
{% endfor %}

Addresses (hash codes) differs in such code.

Answer 1

When you use the query iterator, you in fact do several fetches in sequence, each one will result in a new model instance.

Instead of doing:

cats = db.GqlQuery("SELECT * FROM Cats")
for cat in cats:
    ...

...do this instead:

cats = db.GqlQuery("SELECT * FROM Cats").fetch(50)
for cat in cats:
    ...

And pass the list of cats to the template. You will have same lists in handler and template, as each entity is loaded into a model instance only once.