How do I access part of a list in Jinja2

Question

I'm trying to use the jinja2 templating langauge to return the last n(say, 5) posts in my posts list:

{% for recent in site.posts|reverse|slice(5) %}     {% for post in recent %}         <li> <a href="/{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></li>     {% endfor %} {% endfor %} 

This is returning the whole list though. How do you strip the first or last n elements?

Answer 1

I had the same problem too. It's a simple answer. This retrieves the last five items in site.posts:

{% for recent in site.posts[-5:] %}     {% for post in recent %}         <li> <a href="/{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></li>     {% endfor %} {% endfor %} 

Answer 2

this is a bit simpler I think without the use of the slice filter:

{% for post in site.posts | reverse | list[0:4] %}   <li>&raquo; <a href="/{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></li> {% endfor %} 

another way is to use the loop controls extension:

{% for post in site.posts | reverse %}   {%- if loop.index > 4 %}{% break %}{% endif %}   <li>&raquo; <a href="/{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></li> {%- endfor %}