django plural for templates

Question

How do I get django to realize that the singular form of countries is country and not countrie

Answer 1

From the docs, if you have a template variable called num_countries, you could just write something like:

countr{{ num_countries|pluralize:"y,ies" }} 

Answer 2

I know this question is specifically asked for templates, but for anyone (just like me) stumbling upon this question while searching for the solution in 'Python-side' Django

from django.template.defaultfilters import pluralize  def pluralize_countries(countries):     return 'countr{}'.format(pluralize(countries, 'y,ies') 

The pluralize function looks at the first parameter to see if it's plural or not. Let's assume the first parameter is always an array of some kind. So:

if len(countries) > 1:     # PLURAL! else:     # SINGLE! 

Than, it looks at the second parameter to see what to do if the first parameter is single or plural. A rough sketch of the pluralize code looks like this:

def pluralize(arr, options):     split_options = options.split(',')     if len(arr) > 1:         return split_options[1]     else:         return split_options[0] 

I know the pluralization is slightly more complex. But in a nutshell, this is what it does.