Django Monthly Grid / Table - django

Question

I have a stock portfolio with monthly returns. Currently the returns are stored in the database as the first of each month, and the year.
So January 1, 2016 - 5%
February 1, 2016 - 3%
What's the best way to display this in a Django template?
I want to have each year in a separate row, and columns being the dates so:
Jan Feb Mar Apr....
2014
2015
2016
What's the best way to put the monthly returns into their correct position?
Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

I don't know if it is the best way, but I end up using a list of tuples for doing this.
In the views.py, make a dictionary entry that contains the line you want to display in a tuple and make a list of those lines:
def testview(request):
x = [(2014,1,2,3),(2015,4,5,6),(2016,7,8,9)]
return render(request, 'yourtemplate.html', {'data':x})
Next make a js table in your template (yourtemplate.html) and loop over the lines
<table>
<tr>
<th></th>
<th>Jan</th>
<th>Feb</th>
<th>Mar</th>
</tr>
{% for tuple in data %}
<tr>
<th>{{tuple.0}}</th>
<th>{{tuple.1}}</th>
<th>{{tuple.2}}</th>
<th>{{tuple.3}}</th>
</tr>
{% endfor %}
</table>
I hope this helps!