title: Django Templating: how to access properties of the first item in a list
body: <p>Pretty simple. I have a Python list that I am passing to a Django template.</p>
  
  <p>I can specifically access the first item in this list using </p>
  
  <pre><code>{{ thelist|first }}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, I also want to access a property of that item... ideally you'd think it would look like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{{ thelist|first.propertyName }}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But alas, it does not.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any template solution to this, or am I just going to find myself passing an extra template variable...</p>