alternative to range function in django template. TemplateSyntaxError: Could not parse the remainder

Question

In template, I try to use:

{% for i in range(object.punctuation) %}
    <i class="material-icons">star</i> 
{% endfor %}

Where object.punctuation is an integer with the rating that the object has. Visually this punctuation needs to be represented with stars. But I get:

Could not parse the remainder: '(object.punctuation)' from 'range(object.punctuation)'

As cited in: https://jbmoelker.github.io/jinja-compat-tests/functions/range/#stop looks like range function in jinja has problems with django integration. Is there an alternative to accomplish what I'm trying to do?

This has nothing to do with Jinja because *you are not using Jinja*. You are using Django template language, which as all the documentation including the tutorial explains, does not allow you to call functions with parameters. — Daniel Roseman, Oct 01 '18 at 19:05

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 01 '18 at 18:47

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In your view you can have a variable

my_range = range(object.punctuation)
context['my_range'] = my_range

and then pass it to template from context. Then loop over as follows:

{% for i in my_range %}
    <i class="material-icons">star</i> 
{% endfor %}

answered Oct 01 '18 at 18:47

Ojas Kale

Got amazed cause it worked for a single object. But now I'm dealing with modifying each object item data, since it is the result of looping from a query list – Rizel Tane Oct 01 '18 at 19:10

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 01 '18 at 19:27

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Daniel's correction helped. Found my solution here: Numeric for loop in Django templates

{% with ''|center:object.punctuation as range %}
    {% for _ in range %}
    <i class="material-icons">star</i>
    {% endfor %}
{% endwith %}

answered Oct 01 '18 at 19:27

Rizel Tane

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