Dictionary As Table In Django Template

django-templates, python

Solution

You can make the template code a lot easier to read if you provide the data as a table in your dictionary. It would look more like this:

field = {
    'headers': [u'Birthday:', u'Education', u'Job', u'Child Sex'],
    'rows': [[datetime.date(2012, 4, 6), u'A1', u'job1', u'M']
            ,[datetime.date(2012, 4, 27), u'A2', u'job2', u'F']]
}

You can now iterate over the headers as follows:

<tr>
{% for header in field.headers %}
    <th>{{ header }}</th>
{% endfor %}
</tr>

And each row can be displayed using:

<tr>    
{% for value in field.rows %}
    <td>{{ value }}</td>
{% endfor %}
</tr>

Now, you can obtain the `'headers'` value using `field.keys()`:

[u'Birthday:', u'Education', u'Job:', u'Child Sex:']

You can get the `'values'` using the following loop (where `2` is the number of rows):

rows = []
for i in xrange(2):
    row = []
    for k in field.keys():
        row.append(field[k][i])
    rows.append(row)

Or as a one-liner:

rows = [[field[k][i] for k in field.keys()] for i in xrange(2)]

Problem

I have a dictionary: ``` field = { u'Birthday:': [datetime.date(2012, 4, 6), datetime.date(2012, 4, 27)], u'Education': [u'A1', u'A2'], u'Job:': [u'job1', u'job2'], u'Child Sex:': [u'M', u'F'] } ``` My template code is: ``` <table width="100%" border="0"> <tr> {% for k, v in field.items %} <th>{{ k }}</th> {% endfor %} </tr> <tr> {% for k,v in field.items %} <td> <table width="100%" border="0"> {% for a in v %} <tr class="{% cycle 'odd' 'even' %}"><td>{{ a }}</td></tr> {% endfor %} </table> </td> {% endfor %} </tr> </table> ``` I want to show dictionary keys as table headers and esach value as row: ``` Birthday Education Job Child Sex datetime.date(2012, 4, 6) A1 job1 M datetime.date(2012, 4, 27) A2 job2 F ``` But I have to insert a second table. Is there any way toshow dictionary keys as table headers and esach value as rows? Thanks in advance

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