On Dec 30, 12:49 pm, Sean Brant wrote:
> The last thing that needs to happen is bulling this into core. It's no
> good for the community and that could be part of the perceived
> perceptions problem. Just because enough people bitch does not mean
> that its a good thing. With that said the reason
On Dec 30, 8:55 am, Alex Gaynor wrote:
> I'd highly recommend watchinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tscMnoS4YU8in it
> this *exact* question
> comes up and Russ, Malcolm, and a few other people discuss the pros
> and cons of adding new template tags/filters.
>
> Alex
Thanks, that's a useful lin
On Dec 29, 10:01 pm, Alex Gaynor wrote:
> Adding the ellepsis is as simple as:
>
> {{ foo|slice:":100" }}{% if foo|length > 100 %}...{% endif %}
>
> Given that the recent expansion of the {% if %} tag makes that so easy
> I don't think it's a compelling reason to add a {% truncate %} tag.
>
> Alex
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
