flo...@gmail.com wrote:
> I have a custom filter that does just this that I use in virtually
> every single Django project I use. It's such a common pattern that it
> seems almost silly not to have it included in core. It's also small
> enough that it won't add much in the way of maintenance. Also, there
> already exists a truncate_words, which has nice symmetry with the
> proposed name. Finally, as has been said before, it's something that
> new users intuitively expect to find, so let's not disappoint them.
>
> I quite strongly feel that slice is not a suitable alternative,
> because 1) adding the ellipses requires a non-trivial amount of
> additional template logic (and this logic need be repeated every time
> ellipses are wanted) and 2) it makes the actual markup of the template
> less semantically relevant.
>
> Count me as a big +1 for including this.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric Florenzano
>
>
Agree +1 on including it into Django.
(both truncate and truncate_html)
I'm having similar experiences as Eric, think 7 out of 10 sites
eventually use it in one way or another. To give some quick
examples; filenames, links, fullnames with hover, limiting user
generated content, csv exports, etc.
Sometimes in conjunction with truncate_words, like:
{{ content|truncate_words:40|truncate_letters:200 }
To make sure that text (mostly from user content, or scrapers)
get's limited to some fair amount even one words are extremely
long.
We also include it in django-extensions as truncate_letters.
It always seemed strange why truncate_words is included and
something to truncate letters isn't. Seems a logical pair
I also feel slice isn't an alternative, if it where then by the same
token we could remove truncate_words because you could also
split and slice. And it means repeating yourself many times over
when it can be solved with a simple template_tag.
Regards,
Bas
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