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How can I access nested JSON object in Django Template properly?

I'm trying to access some info with dot notation but I'm getting a weird error. I'll try to explain as well as I can with my code.
My relevant code from views.py file:
def index(request):
// removed "x" assignment as it is long an irrelevant
month = (datetime.datetime.now()).strftime("%B")
year = str(datetime.datetime.now().year)
customers = table(x, month, year)
return render(request, 'index.html', {'customers': customers, "month" : month, "year": year})
Here, I call my tablequery file with table function to return a JSON object of files I have from MONGODB(I am not using MONGODB as the default DB so I do it manually). My table function is as follows:
def table(user, month, year):
///// Code to access DB removed
curs = col.find()
list_curs = list(curs)
liststring = json.dumps(list_curs)
liststring = re.sub("_", "", liststring) // have to remove _ from "_id" because template doesnt allow "_id" type of variable to be used with dot notation
jt = json.loads(liststring)
return jt
Type of "jt" appears to be "list" in python when I print it.
My relevant html code:
<tbody>
{% for customer in customers %}
<tr class="gradeX">
<td>{{ customer.id }}</td>
<td>{{ customer.isim }}</td>
<td>
{% for ekran in customer.ekranlar %}
<li>
{{ ekran }} DENEME
{{ customer.ekranlar.1.hesapbakiyeTL}} TL
{{ customer.ekranlar.1.yurtdisibakiyedolar}} USD
{{ customer.ekranlar.1.yurtdisibakiyeeuro }} Euro
</li>
{% endfor %}
</td>
<td>{{ customer.temsilci }}</td>
<td>
<li>{{ customer.toplambakiyeTL }} TL</li>
<li>{{ customer.toplambakiyeUSD }} USD</li>
<li>{{ customer.toplambakiyeEURO }} EURO</li>
</td>
<td> </td>
<td>
<i class="md md-delete"></i>
<i class="md md-edit"></i>
</td>
</tr>
{% endfor %}
</tbody>
Problem lies within the second for-in loop. When I write "ekran" in customer.ekranlar, I only get the "1", "2", "3" etc as output, but not the values for those. There are more variables within those nested objects(? maybe not objects) but I can only access them if I do "customer.ekranlar.1.hesapbakiyeTL" but when I do "ekran.hesapbakiyeTL"(because I need them looped an printed in table cell) I dont get anything because "ekran" is only "1" or "2" or whatever else the name of the "ekran" is but not the values inside.(I have 4 different accesses as tests to see what is visible how, so it's not the final form)
What I think it should be is like I said, "ekran.hesapbakiyeTL" should be able to access that value, but "ekran" only gets the key, not the nested keys/values inside it. I tried so many different things, tried to change the tablequery output type but I get different problems that way, tried to us "forloop.counter" to use as index to access directly as "customer.ekranlar.forloop.counter" but it appears variables cannot be used in dot notation and many others I've forgotten in the last week. Please, I've been stuck trying to access those values within the for-in loop which stops me from going forward with my project and add other functions.
An example document directly from MongoDB Compass app:
Image for data example
Blues: float numbers
Blacks: strings
There can be more in "ekranlar" as in 1, 2, 3...
All help is appreciated.
Thank you all and have a good day
edit1: I tried to get nested values seperately from python. Same things happens. As soon as I use a second for loop to access like "{{ for ekranlar in customer.ekranlar }}, I only get the key values, not the other variables or their content inside
edit2: How I got around it is that I created a custom tag and sent the customer info to a python file in templatetags with forloop.counter and returned needed info that way. Feels a little clunky but works so meh... If anyone gets around to why this happens inside template html, I'd still love to hear it.

Is there a way to have parallel for loops in HTML?

I am using Python FLask to build a webapp and I am trying to push a nested list to a table in HTML.
Python
item = [[22-03-20, $1409.50, 22-03-20], [22-03-20, $60.00, 22-03-20]]
current HTML
{% for rows in item %}
<tr>
<th scope="row">•</th>
{% for cell in rows %}
<td>{{cell}}</td>
{% endfor %}
<td>edit</td>
</tr>
{% endfor %}
The reason for a duplicate of dates in the nested list is because I need to create a special route page to the date itself.
Output I want to achieve
Basically, the edit will redirect to the page to the respective date. As I have multiple expenses of the same date, I can't just use the unique id within the table.
PROBLEM
The current HTML I have is able to output the 3 items I need, date, expense, date but I can't put a URL redirect to the 3rd variable, date. Is there a way to have 2 for loops running parallel to each other, so I could go through 2 lists at the same time? or is there a better way to do what I want to achieve?

Found a way looking through the documentation again, don't need a parallel for loop actually. I changed the nested list to a tuple in a list. Not sure if this is the best way to do it though.
Python
item = [(22-03-20, $1409.50, 22-03-20), (22-03-20, $60.00, 22-03-20)]
HTML
{% for x,y,z in item %}
<tr>
<th scope="row">•</th>
<td>{{x}}</td>
<td>{{y}}</td>
<td>edit</td>
</tr>
{% endfor %}

I think you should use a list of maps.
item = [
{
'date':'22-03-20',
'price':'$1409.50',
'href':'URI'
},
{
'date':'22-03-20',
'price':'$60.00',
'href':'URI'
},
]
so,
{% for row in item %}
<tr>
<th scope="row">•</th>
<td>{{row.date}}</td>
<td>{{row.price}}</td>
<td>
edit
</td>
</tr>
{% endfor %}

Dealing with json type data in a template

I am after some advice. I know what I need to do, but not sure how I can do it
I send data to a template that comes from from a database
Let's say the database has two fields
Field one (name)
Name of a person
Field two some json (the json has a structure like this, with many field:value)
{
"field1":"value1",
"field2":"value2"
}
I can output this as
Field one (name) Field two (json)
What I actually want to do though, is loop through the json, and print out the values, so like this
Name of a person field1|field2
I am a bit lost on how I can do that
I tried something like this
{% for anitem in fieldtwo %}
<div>{{ anitem }}</div>
{% endfor %}
But that just seems to print out each character
Is what I need to do achievable? I am thinking I just have the whole approach wrong
Thanks
Grant

In the end, I ended up using another dictionary and then pass that through to the template
I loop through the queryset in the view to populate the dictionary
In the template I then did this (alloweddomains is from the view)
{% for testcaseid, domains in alloweddomains.items %}
{% if listtestcase.id == testcaseid %}
{% for key, value in domains.items %}
<div><a class="sendtolinkdisabled" data-testcasename="{{ listtestcase.name }}" data-testcaseid="{{ $
{% endfor %}
{% endif %}
{% endfor %}
This basically looped through the dictionary and if there was a match to my unique ID I get the data and do something with it
I tried various ways to not need the if statement and just get the right point in the dictionary, but nothing seemed to work (so I took the if approach)
Grant

Can I evaluate expressions in a django template?

I'm trying to display table rows with alternating colors. For that, I have two css classes row1 and row2 that I'd like to assign in an alternating pattern to the rows of a table. Ideally, I'd determine if the row is odd or even based on the forloop.counter variable
This is what I'd like the template to do (invalid code, but I think it's self explaning).
{% for norma in normas %}
{% if forloop.counter %2 != 0 %}
<tr class="row1">
{% else %}
<tr class="row2">
{% endif %}
<td>yadda... yadda</td>
.
.
.
{% endfor %}
Is there a way to do this within django template system?

Use cycle - the example shows this exact purpose

Just use in your {%for%} loop :
<tr class="{% cycle 'row1' 'row2' %}>
django templete will cycle through each row. you can add as many items in the cycle.

the followin post explains how to get alternating row colors in Django.
Alternate Row Coloring in Django Template with More Than One Set of Rows

django template question (accessing a list)

I am writing a template for my first django website.
I am passing a list of dictionaries to the template in a variable. I also need to pass a few other lists which hold boolean flags. (Note: all lists have the same length)
The template looks something like this:
<html>
<head><title>First page</title></head><body>
{% for item in data_tables %}
<table>
<tbody>
<tr><td colspan="15">
{% if level_one_flags[forloop.counter-1] %}
<tr><td>Premier League
{% endif %}
<tr><td>Junior league
<tr><td>Member count
{% if level_two_flags[forloop.counter-1] %}
<tr><td>Ashtano League
{% endif %}
</tbody>
</table>
{% endfor %}
</body>
</html>
I am getting the following error:
Template error
In template /mytemplate.html, error at
line 7 Could not parse the remainder:
'[forloop.counter-1]' from
'level_one_flags[forloop.counter-1]'
I am, not suprised I am getting this error, since I was just trying to see if would work. So far, from the documentation, I have not found out how to obtain the items in a list by index (i.e. other than by enumeration).
Does anyone know how I may access a list by index in a template?

In short, Django doesn't do what you want.
The for loop has a number of useful properties within a loop.
forloop.counter The current iteration of the loop (1-indexed)
forloop.counter0 The current iteration of the loop (0-indexed)
forloop.revcounter The number of iterations from the end of the loop (1-indexed)
forloop.revcounter0 The number of iterations from the end of the loop (0-indexed)
forloop.first True if this is the first time through the loop
forloop.last True if this is the last time through the loop
forloop.parentloop For nested loops, this is the loop "above" the current one
You could probably use forloop.counter0 to get the zero-based indexes you want; unfortunately, the Django template language doesn't support variable array indexes (You can do {{ foo.5 }}, but you can't do {{ foo.{{bar}} }}).
What I usually do is to try and arrange the data in the view to make it easier to present in the template. As an example, for you could create an array in your view composed of dictionaries so that all you have to do is loop through the array and pull exactly what you need out of the individual dictionaries. For really complicated things, I've gone so far as to create a DataRow object that would correctly format the data for a particular row in a table.

You use the dot-operator to index the array, or, really, to do anything.
Technically, when the template system
encounters a dot, it tries the
following lookups, in this order:
* Dictionary lookup
* Attribute lookup
* Method call
* List-index lookup
I don't believe you can do math on the index. You'll have to pass in your array constructed in some other way so that you don't have to do this subtraction.

Try using "slice" to access a list by index
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins/#slice

Perhaps a better way is to use forloop.last. Of course, this will require that you send to the template the specific level_one_flag and level_two_flag out of the level_one_flags and level_two_flags arrays, but I think this solution keeps a better logical separation between view and template:
<html>
<head><title>First page</title></head><body>
{% for item in data_tables %}
<table>
<tbody>
<tr><td colspan="15">
{% if forloop.last and level_one_flag %}
<tr><td>Premier League
{% endif %}
<tr><td>Junior league
<tr><td>Member count
{% if forloop.last and level_two_flag %}
<tr><td>Ashtano League
{% endif %}
</tbody>
</table>
{% endfor %}
</body>
</html>