Django snippets: in

in_list filter

# by mikeivanov (on April 16, 2007)

@register.filter
def in_list(value,arg):
   return value in arg

which you would use like this:

The item is 
{% if item|in_list:list %} 
    in list 
{% else %} 
    not in list
{% endif %}

mikeivanov (on August 22, 2007):

Thanks, guychi :-)

afroisalreadyinu (on April 9, 2008):

dammit, i wrote a tag for this whole thing, it's 20 times longer. never thought about such a clean and simple solution. i guess i'll use this one.

Romain Hardouin (on June 13, 2008):

i love this kinda snippet: tiny n' nifty :-)

pgugged (on July 2, 2008):

small,nice,clean and useful :)