Reusing loops in django templates

I was wondering if there's a way to repeat a loop with new objects gathered through jquery/ajax, for example i have {% for car in cars %} do something, then after getting new car objects through an ajax call I w开发者_运维知识库ant to discard the current objects and display the new objects using the same loop. Is that possible? This is for implementing a search function, I initially show some objects but I have a search box for people to find specific objects. I thought of returning ready made html and replacing the html directly but that's a bit annoying.

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The best approach (I think) for doing this, is:

1. have a view set up in Django, such as view_cars that outputs the result page based on a regular GET request. The URL for this might look like http://mysite.com/cars/1. The template for that view might look like this:

   <div id="cars">
       {% for car in cars %}
       <!-- output here! -->
       {% endfor %}
   </div>
   

2. have jQuery load the results with the $.load() function, like so:

   $("#cars").load("http://mysite.com/cars/2 #cars");
   

The search results will be automatically loaded into the #cars div, and you don't have to handle the special AJAX case within Django.

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Once the template has gone through the template engine there are no more loops, just text output in one form or another. But when you use AJAX it re-enters the top of the/a view, so you can reuse any loops you like at that point.