#33431: Regroup Violates Syntax Expectations
-------------------------------------------+-------------------------
Reporter: Caleb White | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: Template system | Version: 3.2
Severity: Normal | Keywords: regroup
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 0
UI/UX: 0 |
-------------------------------------------+-------------------------
I would like to re-report the following issue from 16 years ago:
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/1461
I hope that it is obvious why it would be useful to dynamically resolve
this variable.
I spent a long time trying to figure out why `group_key.grouper` was
always `None` for me, and it's because the variable I'm using as the
grouping token is being treated as a string rather than a variable.
Honestly this seems like a serious design flaw in the template language
itself - why are unquoted tokens ever treated as strings? How is the user
of the template language supposed to know whether a given token will be
resolved as a variable or treated as a literal string? This is very
confusing and I can't find any explanation in the documentation of why
this is the case. I can't think of any benefit gained by all of this
ambiguity, so I imagine the only reason not to change this is going to be
backwards compatibility.
As far as I can tell, this bug is present in every version of Django.
--
Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/33431>
Django <https://code.djangoproject.com/>
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Django updates" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
To view this discussion on the web visit
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-updates/049.0d36c3aea8a37a7dc5f5da111ed66315%40djangoproject.com.
