how to display list of LANGUAGES in django template

Question

i'm trying to show languages label list in my template , but it only shows the original name of the language my settings.py

LANGUAGES = (      
   ('en', _('english uk')),
   ('ar', _('arabic uae')),
   ('fa', _('Persian')),

)

my template

        <li class="nav-item dropdown">
          <a class="nav-link" data-toggle="dropdown" href="#">
            <i class="fas fa-globe"></i>
          </a>
          <div class="text-center dropdown-menu dropdown-menu-lg dropdown-menu-right">
            {% get_current_language as LANGUAGE_CODE %}
            {% get_available_languages as LANGUAGES %}
            {% get_language_info_list for LANGUAGES  as languages %}
            {% for lang in languages %}
                <a class="dropdown-item" href="/{{lang.code}}/"> {{lang.name_local}}</a>
            {% endfor %}    
                      
          </div>
        </li>

i need to show _('english uk'), values instead of the original name is it possible please ? thank you for helping ..

I think it better you keep the value as a string in a separate list. Ex: ***`('en', "_('english uk')")`*** — JPG, Aug 11 '21 at 15:25
may be [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/271077/django-how-to-do-tuple-unpacking-in-a-template-for-loop) — JPG, Aug 11 '21 at 15:29
Can you add your view and/or models related to this template? What is it that you are trying to do? Just show your possible languages in the template or is it a form where you select an option? — gdef_, Aug 11 '21 at 15:43

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 11 '21 at 15:57

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for those who looks for iterate through tuples from template

<div class="text-center dropdown-menu dropdown-menu-lg dropdown-menu-right">
     {% get_current_language as LANGUAGE_CODE %}
     {% get_available_languages as LANGUAGES %}
     {% for lang in LANGUAGES %}
          <a class="dropdown-item" href="/{{lang.0}}/"> {{lang.1}}</a>
      {% endfor %}    
</div>

answered Aug 11 '21 at 15:57

artiest

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This is an acceptable solution, but I think the named variants from iterating the language info are easier to remember and recognize. – Danijela Popović Oct 24 '21 at 15:44

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 24 '21 at 15:41

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You can try lang.name and lang.name_translated. Those may be the answer for you, the first shows the language name in english and the second in the currently active language.

answered Oct 24 '21 at 15:41

Danijela Popović

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 03 '23 at 19:28

I use the code bellow in django 3, 4 and python 3.6+, it works great.

{% load i18n %}

<form action="{% url 'set_language' %}" method="post">
    {% csrf_token %}
    <div class="" style="background-color: #fff; padding: 4px; border-radius:2px;">
        <select name="language" style="border-width: 0px;">
        {% get_current_language as LANGUAGE_CODE %}
        {% get_available_languages as LANGUAGES %}
        {% get_language_info_list for LANGUAGES as languages %}
        {% for language in languages %}
        <option value="{{ language.code }}"{% if language.code == LANGUAGE_CODE %} selected{% endif %}>
                {{ language.name_local }}
        </option>
        {% endfor %}
        </select>
        <input type="submit" value="{% trans "Go" %}" style="border:none; background-color: #198754; color:#fff; font-weight:bold;">
    </div>
</form>

how to display list of LANGUAGES in django template

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