How to read part of many-to-many field in the template

[alghafli]

Hello django users. I am working on my first django project and I faced a little problem.
I have a library database with books. A book element may have several authors.
In the view function I query the database for books. I want to show the first three authors. I was thinking to do something similar to the following python code but using the template language:

authors_to_show = book.authors.get_queryset() [0:3]
for author in authors_to_show:
    #html code here

However, it appears that I cannot define variables in the template unless I extend the language a bit. Note that I have several books to process and I can do that using the for loop in the template language. But I want to ignore some authors in each book.
Any idea of a proper way to do this.

Thank you in advance,
Mohammad

[Elliot Bradbury]

Hi Mohammad,

Check out slice.

It's a builtin template filter that can be used like this:

{% for author in book.authors.all|slice:"3" %}

  {# HTML up in here #}

{% endfor %}

Good luck,

Elliot

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[alghafli]

Thank you for the fast reply. I did what you suggested and it worked fine :)

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