Question

Say I have an integer value that I output to a django template say x. I also have a picture that I want to print x times in a row. How would I output this picture x times in the template?

Answer 1

A quick but ugly hack to get this done would be using the make_list filter:

{% for i in "xxxx"|make_list %}
    {{ image_html }}
{% endfor %}

This would print the image four times (as there are four characters in the string).

A cleaner way would be to pass a list into your template using range():

context['image_print_range'] = range(1, 5)
...
{% for i in image_print_range %}
    {{ image_html }}
{% endfor %}

Another solution (probably the cleanest one) is a custom template tag or filter, e.g.:

@register.simple_tag
def print_multiple(value, count):
    """Print a value multiple times."""
    return ' '.join([value] * count)

And in your template:

{% print_multiple "foobar" 4 %}