Duplicating Template Tag

from django import template
register = template.Library()

@register.tag
def duplicate(parser, token):
    nodelist = parser.parse(('endduplicate',))
    parser.delete_first_token()
    
    try:
        tag_name, repeat = token.split_contents()
    except ValueError:
        raise template.TemplateSyntaxError("%r tag requires exactly one arguments" % token.contents.split()[0])
    return DuplicateNode(nodelist, repeat)

class DuplicateNode(template.Node):
    def __init__(self, nodelist, repeat):
        self.nodelist = nodelist
        self.repeat = repeat
    def render(self, context):
        try:
            repeat = int(self.repeat)
        except ValueError:
            self.repeat = template.Variable(self.repeat)
            repeat = self.repeat.resolve(context)
        output = ''
        i = 0
        while i < repeat:
            output = output + self.nodelist.render(context)
            i = i + 1
        return output