On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Robert <rkind...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey,
> I'm trying to make a template that only reveals the first four items
> of a list, and then handles the rest of the list in a different
> respect, ie:
>
> for item in list
> if forloop.counter < 3 {
> do something
> } else {
> do something else
> }
>
> but I can't come up with an eloquent way to do this in the django
> template language. My ideas so far are as follows:
> 1. sending two lists from the view file (a bad idea because this has
> to be repeated for five different lists)
> 2. doing an
> {% ifequal __ %}
>
> {% endifequal %}
>
> {% ifequal __something else %}
>
> {% endifequal %}
>
> and so on, also not a terrific idea because it would mean having
> like... 20 decision structures, and whatnot.
>
> Any ideas are greatly appreciated!
> Thanks
> -Robert
>
>
> >
>
Check out james bennet's template-utils libarary which contains an {%
iflessthan %} template tag.
Alex
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