Quick and dirty serial numbers across pages in Django templates

Update:

Scratch that. I just learned that this can be done in a much simpler way:
{% for object in object_list %} {{ page_obj.start_index|add:forloop.counter0 }} {% endfor %}
I recently had to write a template for a paginated view which displayed a serial number for each object in the object_list. I normally use forloop.counter for general purpose serial numbers. However this did not work with paginated views as the counter gets reset in each page. This caused the serial numbers to go from 1 to #-of-results-in-the-page and then repeat. I wrote a filter to tackle this problem.

The code (add to your filters file under ./templatetags/):
from django import template from django.conf import settings register = template.Library() @register.filter def adjust_for_pagination(value, page): value, page = int(value), int(page) adjusted_value = value + ((page - 1) * settings.RESULTS_PER_PAGE) return adjusted_value
And the template snippet:
{% for object in object_list %} <div class="serial-no"> {% if is_paginated %} {{ forloop.counter|adjust_for_pagination:page }} {% else %} {{ forloop.counter }} {% endif %} </div> ... {% endfor %}
The adjust_for_pagination filter adjusts the value of forloop.counter based on the current page. Page and is_paginated variables are expected to be present in the context. These should respectively denote the current page number (1 based) and if the results are paginated. RESULTS_PER_PAGE is currently taken from the settings file. I couldn't think of a way to pass this value also from the template.