Re: Add a generic "getter" filter to the built-in library

2013-11-04 Thread Emanuele Bertoldi
Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > It's worth pointing out that this is something the Django core team has > historically rejected, on the basis that it's a slippery slope from here to > turning Django's template language into a fully featured programming > language. So -- fair warning -- the default

Add a generic "getter" filter to the built-in library

2013-11-03 Thread Emanuele Bertoldi
I've opened a ticket (#21370) with a proposal for the *inclusion of a generic "getter" filter* in the built-in library. *Why?* Well, because at the moment Django's template system really lacks of support for retrieving data from existing context variables in all the cases in which the name of