GAE template code to check is item in the list

Question

How to use "in" statement to check is item in the list or not. If I use:

{% for picture in pictures %}
   {% if picture in article.pictures %}
      <input type="checkbox" checked="true" name="picture" value="{{ picture.key }}"  />
   {% else %}
      <input type="checkbox" name="picture" value="{{ picture.key }}"  />
   {% endif %}
      <img src='/img?img_id={{ picture.key }}'></img> <br />
{% endfor %}

this is failing with:

TemplateSyntaxError: 'if' statement improperly formatted

on line

{% if picture in article.pictures %}

help?

Answer 1

I've not worked with GAE, but the code for a custom "ifin" Django tag can be found in the patch here. As mentioned in my comment, it looks like that functionality may be implemented in Django 1.2

Answer 2

By default, Django templates do not support full conditional expressions. You can check if one value is "true" with if, or you can check whether two values are equal with ifequal, etc.

Perhaps you can decorate your pictures in the view before you render the template.

for picture in pictures:
    picture.is_in_article = (picture in article.pictures)

Then in the template you can act on the value of that new attribute.

{% for picture in pictures %}
    {% if picture.is_in_article %}
        <input type="checkbox" checked="true" name="picture" value="{{ picture.key }}"  />
    {% else %}
        <input type="checkbox" name="picture" value="{{ picture.key }}"  />
    {% endif %}
    <img src='/img?img_id={{ picture.key }}'></img> <br />
{% endfor %}