[Fixed]-Django counter in loop to index list

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28👍

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You can’t. The simple way is to preprocess you data in a zipped list, like this

In your view

x = [1, 2, 3]
y = [4, 5, 6]
zipped = zip(x, y)

Then in you template :

{% for x, y in zipped %}
    {{ x }} - {{ y }}
{% endfor %}
👤Xavier Barbosa

21👍

To access an iterable using a forloop counter I’ve coded the following very simple filter:

from django import template

register = template.Library()

@register.filter
def index(sequence, position):
    return sequence[position]

And then I can use it at my templates as (don’t forget to load it):

{% for item in iterable1 %}
  {{ iterable2|index:forloop.counter0 }}
{% endfor %}

Hope this helps someone else!

👤Caumons

8👍

Sounds like you’re looking for my django-multiforloop. From the README:

Rendering this template

{% load multifor %}
{% for x in x_list; y in y_list %}
  {{ x }}:{{ y }}
{% endfor %}

with this context

context = {
    "x_list": ('one', 1, 'carrot'),
    "y_list": ('two', 2, 'orange')
}

will output

one:two
1:2
carrot:orange
👤Gabriel Grant

7👍

I ended up having to do this: 

{% for x in x_list %}
  {% for y in y_list %}
    {% if forloop.counter == forloop.parentloop.counter %}
       Do Something
    {% endif %}
  {% endfor %}
{% endfor %}
👤fmdra

0👍

don’t think you’ll be able to do it like that. You’ll need either a template tag, or much better, to align the lists in your view logic, before passing an aligned data structure to you template.

👤simon

-1👍

I solved this problem by adding placeholder properties such as template_property1 to one of the models.

Then add logic in the views.py function to loop through both models and assign values across:

model1 = Model1.objects.all()
model2 = Model2.objects.all()

for m1 in model1:                          (loop through model1) 
  for m2 in model2:                        (loop through model2)
    if m2.FK == m1:                        (MATCH SOME CRITERIA)   
      m1.template_property1 = m2.property  (ASSIGN VALUE)

then access all values through a single Model object int the template
for m1 in model1
{{ model1.template_property1 ))

👤Ludo

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