Cutting up a list of objects into a table with a given number of columns

[Purdea Andrei]

Cutting up a list of objects into a table with a given number of columns

Approaches that might be bad:

• it is not a good idea for the view to cut up the list, because the number of columns (N) is layout-related.

• useing divisibleby is somewhat low-level, you are implementing a for loop, in a template language that is supposed to be high-level

Proposal:

• to have a filter that will behave like this:

    {% for row in objectlist|tablecols:3 %}
       <tr>
         {% for item in row %}
             <td>
                  {{ item.content }}
             </td>
         {% endfor %}
       </tr>
    {% endfor %}
  

[Adrian Holovaty]

I have template filters called bunch and bunchlong in my personal Django projects, and they do exactly this. I'd be happy to add them as default filters; I'd argue they're useful enough to be in the defaults.

[Taylan Pince]

What is the status of this ticket? It seems to have been accepted, but then closed by an anonymous user? It would be great to have this feature in Django.

[Taylan Pince]

Suggestion for filters to slice lists into rows and columns

[Aymeric Augustin]

Change UI/UX from NULL to False.

[Aymeric Augustin]

Change Easy pickings from NULL to False.

[Aymeric Augustin]

Considering:

• how long this ticket has languished, with little demand,
• that it can easily be implemented in a third-part library,
• the current trend not to extend the template system further,

I'm going to close it.