Django Numerical Positions
November 12, 2010
I wanted to convert the position at a competition into 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc. Django makes this easy with the humanize template filters.
First of all, you need to add the humanize application to your INSTALLED_APPS:
INSTALLED_APPS = ( 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.sites', 'django.contrib.humanize', )
Next, add:
{% load humanize %}
to the top of your template, then use the ordinal filter:
<h3>{{result.results_position|ordinal}} {{result.contest_event.event_date}} {{result.contest_event.contest.name}}</h3>
On the resulting HTML, this will show as
