Table population in html with complex for loop - django

Question

Why doesn't this work:
{% for a,b,c,d,e in test1,test2,test3,test4,test5 %}
<tr>
<td>{{a}}</td>
<td>{{b}}</td>
<td>{{c}}</td>
<td>{{d}}</td>
<td>{{e}}</td>
</tr>
{% endfor %}
Am I doing this wrong or is this not how this sort of task should be done?
I receive the error:
Could not parse the remainder: ',test2,test3,test4,test5' from 'test1,test2,test3,test4,test5'
My view is like this:
def jobs(request):
test1 = range(10)
test2 = range(10)
test3 = range(10)
test4 = range(10)
test5 = range(10)
context ={
"test1":test1,
"test2":test2,
"test3":test3,
"test4":test4,
"test5":test5,
}
return render(request,"jobs.html",context)
I want a table that shows job number, client, etc.. and I'm just performing tests at the moment with simple ranges to see if this works in concept. But I'm not getting it to work.
So, in production, it test1 might be equal to a list like test1 = ['Job 1','Job 2','Job 3']

Answer 1

In production, I'd hope you have an object model that actually represents the data you are trying to display, then it would just be a very simple task to iterate over a list or queryset of said model.
In your current situation, you could use a mixture of custom template tags (getrange used below is this)
def index(value, arg):
return value[arg]
{% with len=test1|length %}
{% for i in len|getrange %}
<tr>
<td>{{test1|index:i}}</td>
<td>{{test2|index:i}}</td>
<td>{{test3|index:i}}</td>
<td>{{test4|index:i}}</td>
<td>{{test5|index:i}}</td>
</tr>
{% endfor %}
{% endwith %}
Now I hope you can see that the above is incredibly ugly and should be fired into the sun at the first available opportunity.
Instead, make an actual model that represents the data.