Django grouping queryset by first letter?

Question

I have a QuerySet like:

items = Item.objects.all()

Item has a 'name' field. In the template I want to show:

• A
• Axes
• Alcohol
• B
• Bazookas
• C
• Coins
• Cartridges
• S
• Swords
• Sparrows

So the items are ordered and group by the first letter. Missing letters are omitted. Does anyone have any ideas?

Answer 1

Even easier. You can group by first leter just in 'regroup':

{% regroup items|dictsort:"name" by name.0 as item_letter %}
<ul>
{% for letter in item_letter %}
    <h4>{{ letter.grouper|title }}</h4>
    {% for i in letter.list|dictsort:"name" %}
        <li>{{ i.name }}</li>
    {% endfor %}
{% empty %}
    <span>There is no items yet...</span>
{% endfor %}
</ul>

name.0 in this case the same as item.name[0] in Python.

Tested in Django 1.10