How to access array elements in a Django template?

Question

I am getting an array arr passed to my Django template. I want to access individual elements of the array in the array (e.g. arr[0], arr[1]

Answer 1

Remember that the dot notation in a Django template is used for four different notations in Python. In a template, foo.bar can mean any of:

foo[bar]       # dictionary lookup
foo.bar        # attribute lookup
foo.bar()      # method call
foo[bar]       # list-index lookup

It tries them in this order until it finds a match. So foo.3 will get you your list index because your object isn't a dict with 3 as a key, doesn't have an attribute named 3, and doesn't have a method named 3.