Last time I asked on IRC, dev answer was "because nobody asked for it".
Of course one could cat ~./irc/logs/django | grep -i truncate and just look at how ridiculous that statement is. Unfortunately, more often than not, the needs of the developers don't leave room for contributions from other users. J. Leclanche / Adys On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Nic Pottier <nicpott...@gmail.com> wrote: > > New to Django, but certainly not web development. After being > pleasantly surprised with a lot of the available Django filters I was > rather surprised not to see a string truncation filter included. > > A little googling shows I'm not the only one, there are tons of people > writing their own filters to accomplish this, and sure enough a nice > looking patch submitted two (TWO!) years ago to add a |truncate. > > I'd be curious to hear what the reason for not accepting this patch > is. String truncation is a pretty common task, and having it built in > seems like a no-brainer. > > For your reference, here's the ticket and patch: > <http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/5025> > > Thanks, > > -Nic > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<django-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-develop...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
