Question

hi all am trying do do this on the template {% some_list |forloop.counter %}and the return a value from the list i have this function that should do the trick but don’t know how to put it all together here is the function below

def return_item(a_list,a_int):
    return a_list[a_int]

Answer 1

It’s very clear in the django template filter docs how to do this:

@register.filter
def return_item(l, i)
    try:
        return l[i]
    except:
        return None

than:

{{ mylist|return_item:forloop.counter }}