Hi Mohammad,
Check out slice
<https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/ref/templates/builtins/#slice>.
It's a builtin template filter that can be used like this:
{% for author in book.authors.all|slice:"3" %}
{# HTML up in here #}
{% endfor %}
Good luck,
Elliot
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 9:31 AM, alghafli <theb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello django users. I am working on my first django project and I faced a
> little problem.
> I have a library database with books. A book element may have several
> authors.
> In the view function I query the database for books. I want to show the *first
> three* authors. I was thinking to do something similar to the following
> python code but using the template language:
>
> authors_to_show = book.authors.get_queryset() [0:3]
> for author in authors_to_show:
> #html code here
>
> However, it appears that I cannot define variables in the template unless
> I extend the language a bit. Note that I have several books to process and
> I can do that using the for loop in the template language. But I want to
> ignore some authors in each book.
> Any idea of a proper way to do this.
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Mohammad
>
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