django template question (accessing a list)

Question

I am writing a template for my first django website.

I am passing a list of dictionaries to the template in a variable. I also need to pass a few other lists which h

Answer 1

You use the dot-operator to index the array, or, really, to do anything.

Technically, when the template system encounters a dot, it tries the following lookups, in this order:

* Dictionary lookup
* Attribute lookup
* Method call
* List-index lookup

I don't believe you can do math on the index. You'll have to pass in your array constructed in some other way so that you don't have to do this subtraction.