I have also needed this in the past and just hacked the forloop code to provide the variables. I can make a patch available with a couple of tests if there is interest in including this.
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Tim Chase <[email protected]> wrote: > > Santiago Perez wrote: >> Hi, I found myself needing to reference the previous or next >> element of a list within a for loop of a template. I think it >> would be pretty easy to implement the following extra members >> to the forloop context variable: >> >> + forloop.next_element >> + forloop.next_counter >> + forloop.next_counter0 >> + forloop.previous_element >> + forloop.previous_counter >> + forloop.previous_counter0 >> >> Am I missing some very simple alternative way of doing this? > > > I've done this in the past with a filter as detailed in this thread: > > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/e9859caad814de7/ > > I haven't needed the counter because I always have the current > element of the loop and can add/subtract accordingly. > > -tim > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
