On Feb 19, 8:04 am, Daniel Wong <allyourc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Seems like there's no good way to do this, because you can't call
> methods that take > 0 arguments.
>
> Here's an example of the sort of thing I'm trying to do. Imagine
> you're trying to create a spreadsheet like view:
>
> {% for person in people %}
>   <tr>
>   {% for col in columns %}
>     <td>{{ person.get(col) }}</td>
>   {% endfor %}
> {% endfor %}
>
> Seems like you'd have to use custom tags to achieve this, but that
> seems way too complicated for something so simple. Is there a better
> way?

Writing a custom filter for this is the correct way - and it's a three-
line job:

@register.filter
def get_obj(obj, value):
    return obj.get(value)

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