Django templates: forloop.first and forloop.last

Question

I have the following code in my template:

{% for f in friendslist %}          {% if forloop.first %}             // display something                                     {% endif %}          // display stuff          {% if forloop.last %}             // display something         {% endif %}  {% endfor %} 

It works as expected when there is more than one item in the friendslist. But if there is just 1 item, then the content inside the forloop.last conditional does not display.

I guess this is because the loop in that case is the first, but I mean it's also the last right? So why dosn't both contents inside first and last conditional show?

Answer 1

In my code they both execute if there is only one element in friendslist. Here is a test you can run in the shell where maybe you can figure out what isn't working:

$ ./manage.py shell  >>> from django import template >>> t = template.Template("""{% for f in friendslist %}                          {% if forloop.first %}                              First of the loop                                                      {% endif %}                          {{ f }}                          {% if forloop.last %}                              Last of the loop                          {% endif %}                  {% endfor %}""")  >>> c = template.Context({'friendslist' : ['one element',]}) >>> t.render(c)                           First of the loop                      one element                           Last of the loop