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I know I’m a bit behind the discussion, but I found a change that you might consider useful. If you replace the line:

context[self.new_result s] = self.split_seq(context[self.results], int(self.cols))

with

context[self.new_results] = self.split_seq(Variable(self.results).resolve(context), int(self.cols))

then you can take advantage of Django’s automatic context variable resolution feature. This will allow you to use the template tag to split lists that are elements of hashes, etc., instead of just top-level lists in the context dictionary.

I ran into a problem with the code as-is when I wanted to split a list that was an element of a hash in the context. That is, the list was created in the view as variable[”hashname”]=[], and the entire hash variable was returned through context. When specified in the template this turned into things like {{for element in variable.hashname}} — which worked fine. But when passed to list_to_columns, it failed with a key lookup. Back in Python, context[”variable.hashname”] doesn’t exist — you have to know that it’s a hash and use the bracket syntax. The Django django.template.Variable object can take care of this type of lookup automatically.

Thanks again!