Django - How to do tuple unpacking in a template 'for' loop

Question

In my views.py, I\'m building a list of two-tuples, where the second item in the tuple is another list, like this:

[ Product_Type_1, [ product_1, product_2 ]         


        

Answer 1

it would be best if you construct your data like {note the '(' and ')' can be exchanged for '[' and ']' repectively, one being for tuples, one for lists}

[ (Product_Type_1, ( product_1, product_2 )),
   (Product_Type_2, ( product_3, product_4 )) ]

and have the template do this:

{% for product_type, products in product_type_list %}
    {{ product_type }}
    {% for product in products %}
        {{ product }}
    {% endfor %}
{% endfor %}

the way tuples/lists are unpacked in for loops is based on the item returned by the list iterator. each iteration only one item was returned. the first time around the loop, Product_Type_1, the second your list of products...