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[Matthew Nuzum <matthew.nuzum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm playing with Google App Engine. I'm using the Django templating system
and want to do something I've not tried to do before.

I'm getting a list of events using something like Events.all() and then
showing them in a table. My template looks like this:

        {% for event in events %}
            <tr>
                <td>{{ event.title }}</td>
                <td>{{ event.started|date:"l, F jS" }}</td>
                <td><a href="/manage/edit/{{ event.key.id }}/">edit</a></td>
            </tr>
        {% endfor %}

What I'd love to do is add a class to the <tr> if the event date is in the
future but within some short period (like 3 days) and then a different class
if the event is in the past. I'm OK w/ doing just the class for past dates.

However I can't seem to find a way to do any kind of comparison short of
pre-processing all the rows from the query to add a boolean for each row
indicating that the event is near or in the past.

Anyone have a tip that might help?

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