Need to convert a string to int in a django template

Question

I am trying to pass in url parameters to a django template like this...

response = render_to_string(\'persistConTemplate.html\', request.GET)
         


        

Answer 1

My solution is kind of a hack and very specific..

In the template I want to compare a percentage with 0.9, and it never reaches 1, but all the values are considered string in the template, and no way to convert string to float.

So I did this:

{% if "0.9" in value %}
...
{% else %}
...
{% endif %}

If I want to detect some value is beyond 0.8, I must do:

{% if ("0.9" in value) or ("0.8" in value) %}
...
{% else %}
...
{% endif %}

This is a hack, but suffice in my case. I hope it could help others.